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Anterolateral avulsion fracture of the distal tibial physis is known as -

A
Potts fracture
B
Tillaux frascture
C
Choparacture
D
Jones fractture
High-Yield Explanation
Two unusual injuries of the growing ankle are the Tillaux fracture and the notorious triplane fracture. The TILLAUX fracture is an avulsion of a fragment of tibia by the anterior tibiofibular ligament; in the child or adolescent this fragment is the lateral pa of the epiphysis and the injury is therefore a Salter-Harris type 3 fracture. REF:Apley&;s system of ohopaedics- 9th edn - pg no 918 .

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