Upper Limb Fractures

Introduction

Lower limb fractures are mainly due to high energy traumas like- road side accidents except in elderly people or diseased bones. High energy trauma is most of the time associated with open, contaminated and comminuted fracture of tibia & femur. This fractures need urgent surgical intervention to stop bleeding, prevent spread of infection & to stabilize the patient.

Fractures of the lower limb are common especially in the elderly. They are often associated .with considerable morbidity and lengthy hospitalization.

• Hip fractures- Inter- trochanteric fractures, fracture neck femur
• Fractures of femur (thigh bone)
• Fractures of knee : Patella fractures, distal femur fractures
• Fractures of ankle: Pott’s, Pilon fractures, Tillaux fractures, Bosworth fractures, Weber fractures, Wagstaffe-Leforte fracture, Maisonneuve fracture etc.
• Fractures of foot: Jones fracture, Lisfranc injury,avulsion of the 5th metatarsal, Calcaneal fracture, Lover’s fracture, Aviator fracture, March fracture, Beak fracture
• Fracturs of tibia: Shaft fractures, Plateau fractures.