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Salter-Harris fracture classification (mnemonic)

Dr MT Niknejad and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.

Useful mnemonics for remembering the Salter-Harris classification system is:

SALTR
SMACK

Fortunately this is also the order of prognosis (from best to worse)

Mnemonics

SALTR

S - slipped (type I)
A - above (type II)
L - lower (type III)
T - through or transverse or together (type IV)
R - ruined or rammed (type V)

SMACK

S - slipped (type I)
M - metaphyseal (type II)
A - articular - epiphyseal (type III)
C - complete - metaphysis and epiphysis (type IV)
K - krushed! (type V)

References

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1. Weissleder R. Primer of diagnostic imaging. Mosby Inc. (2007) ISBN:0323040683. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon