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🦴 **Lafontaine’s Criteria — Distal Radius Fractures**

Will your distal radius fracture remain stable after reduction? 🩻

Remember these **5 predictors of instability** 👇

1️⃣ Dorsal angulation > 20°
2️⃣ Dorsal comminution
3️⃣ Intra-articular radiocarpal fracture
4️⃣ Associated ulnar fracture
5️⃣ Age > 60 years

💡 **Exam Pearl:** 3 or more criteria indicate a higher risk of secondary displacement after reduction.

⚠️ These criteria predict instability but do not automatically mandate surgery.

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🦴 **FRYKMAN CLASSIFICATION | DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES**

The **Frykman classification** categorises distal radius fractures based on radiocarpal joint involvement, distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) involvement, and associated ulnar styloid fracture.

🔹 **Types I–II** — Extra-articular fractures
🔹 **Types III–IV** — Radiocarpal joint involvement
🔹 **Types V–VI** — DRUJ involvement
🔹 **Types VII–VIII** — Both radiocarpal and DRUJ involvement

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🦴 KLIC SCORE | PREDICTING DAIR FAILURE IN PJI

The KLIC score is a preoperative risk score developed to estimate the risk of DAIR failure in acute periprosthetic joint infection (PJI).

🔹 KLIC COMPONENTS

K — Kidney dysfunction → 2 points
L — Liver cirrhosis → 1.5 points
I — Index surgery → 1.5 points
C — Cemented prosthesis → 2 points
C — CRP >115 mg/L → 2.5 points

🧠 Maximum score = 9.5

📊 SCORE INTERPRETATION

In the original KLIC cohort:

≤2 → 4.5% DAIR failure
2.5–3.5 → 19.4%
4–5 → 55%
5.5–6.5 → 71.4%
≥7 → 100%

⚠️ Important: These percentages are from the original cohort. External validation has shown variable performance, so KLIC should support—not replace—clinical judgment.

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🦴 LAUGE–HANSEN CLASSIFICATION | ANKLE FRACTURES

The Lauge–Hansen classification describes ankle fractures based on the position of the foot at the time of injury and the direction of the deforming force.

🔹 SAD — Supination + Adduction
→ Transverse distal fibula → Vertical medial malleolus

🔹 SER — Supination + External Rotation
→ AITFL → Distal fibula → Posterior malleolus → Medial injury

🔹 PER — Pronation + External Rotation
→ Medial injury → AITFL → High fibula → Posterior malleolus

🔹 PAB — Pronation + Abduction
→ Medial injury → AITFL → High transverse/comminuted fibula

🧠 Exam pearl:
Foot position + deforming force → predictable sequence of injuries

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🦴 MASON CLASSIFICATION | RADIAL HEAD FRACTURES

The Mason classification categorizes radial head fractures based on displacement, comminution, and associated elbow dislocation.

🔹 Type I — Nondisplaced / minimally displaced
🔹 Type II — Displaced / angulated
🔹 Type III — Comminuted and displaced
🔹 Type IV — Radial head fracture with associated elbow dislocation

🧠 Exam pearls:
• Always assess for a mechanical block to forearm rotation
• CT helps define fracture morphology and associated injuries
• Type IV = elbow dislocation

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🦴 DELBET CLASSIFICATION | PAEDIATRIC FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES

The Delbet classification categorizes paediatric femoral neck fractures based on the location of the fracture.

🔹 Type I — Transphyseal
🔹 Type II — Transcervical
🔹 Type III — Cervicotrochanteric
🔹 Type IV — Intertrochanteric

🧠 Exam pearls:
• Type II → Most common
• Type I → Highest AVN risk
• Type IV → Lowest AVN risk
• AVN risk decreases from Type I → Type IV

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🦶 PIRANI SCORE | CLUBFOOT

The Pirani Score is a clinical scoring system used to assess the severity of congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV).

🔹 6 clinical signs
🔹 3 Midfoot + 3 Hindfoot
🔹 Each sign scored 0, 0.5 or 1
🔹 Total score = 0–6
🔹 Higher score → greater deformity

🧠 Exam pearl:
Pirani = MFS /3 + HFS /3 → Total /6

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🦴 RICKETS | QUIZ
❓ Which biochemical pattern is most typical of nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets?

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🦴 PERTHES DISEASE | QUIZ

A 6-year-old boy presents with a painless limp and restricted hip movement.

❓ Which movement is typically affected earliest in Perthes disease?

A. Internal rotation
B. External rotation
C. Adduction
D. Flexion

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🦴 RICKETS | QUIZ

❓ Which biochemical pattern is most typical of nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets?

A. Low phosphate, elevated ALP and elevated PTH
B. Normal phosphate, low ALP and low PTH
C. High phosphate, low ALP and suppressed PTH
D. High calcium, high phosphate, low PTH

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