Epiphysiolysis

A Salter–Harris fracture is a fracture that involves the epiphyseal plate or growth plate of a bone. It is thus a form of child bone fracture. It is a common injury found in children, occurring in 15% of childhood long bone fractures. This type of fracture and its classification system is named for Robert B. Salter and William H. Harris, who created and published this classification system in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in 1963. There are nine types of Salter–Harris fractures; types I to V as described by Robert B Salter and W Robert Harris in 1963, and the rarer types VI to IX which have been added subsequently: The mnemonic 'SALTER' can be used to help remember the first five types. N.B.: This mnemonic requires the reader to imagine the bones as long bones, with the epiphyses at the base.