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Now let's move on to Salter-Harris

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type 2 injury, also involving the ankle.

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This time we're looking at the injury to

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the tibia versus Salter-Harris type 1 injury we

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saw before that involved the distal fibula.

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Take a look at the plain radiograph first.

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I'm going to blow this up

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to make it a little bigger.

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Again, adjacent physes are your friend.

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This time it is the physis of the distal

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tibia which is wider, more irregular

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than the physis of the distal fibula.

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What else do you notice?

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You notice that there's a little

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bit of periosteal reaction extending

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up the metaphysis on the lateral side.

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What does that mean?

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That means that the injury involves

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not only your physis, but also your

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metaphysis, even if you don't see it.

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Okay, so that virtually guarantees you're

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looking at a Salter-Harris type II injury.

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And what does that look like on plain film?

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I'm sorry, on MRI?

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Here's the MRI on your right.

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This is a fat-suppressed,

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fluid-sensitive sequence.

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And look what you see here.

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Indeed, look at the physis

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here of the distal fibula.

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Look at the irregular enlarged

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physis of your distal tibia.

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And here is the injury extending into the

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metaphysis and causing subperiosteal fluid

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formation and elevation of that periosteum.

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So this is what you're looking at on

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your plain radiograph, equivalent to

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a Salter-Harris type II injury.

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Faculty

Mahesh Thapa, MD, MEd, FAAP

Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging, and Director of Diagnostic Imaging Professor

Seattle Children's & University of Washington

Tags

X-Ray (Plain Films)

Trauma

Pediatrics

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

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