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Lateral Condyle Fractures

Epidemiology

 

Average age 6 years

 

20% distal humeral fracture

- second most common elbow fracture after supracondylar

 

Mechanism

 

Pull Off 

- more common 

- fracture begins posterolateral metaphysis

- LCL, ECRL & ECRB attached to fragment

 

Push off

- varus force to extended EJ

 

Classification