title: Hoffa's fracture with ipsilateral fibular fracture in a 16-year-old girl: An approach to a rare injury.
abstract: Hoffa's fracture is an uncommon fracture of the femoral condyle with coronal orientation of the fracture line. The mechanism of injury in pediatric Hoffa's fracture is road traffic accident, sports injury, and trivial injury. Clinical examination and proper imaging is important for diagnosis of pediatric Hoffa's fracture because of high chances of missing these injuries which can lead to nonunion and malunion at the fracture site. Open reduction and anatomical reduction of intraarticular fragment is the gold standard treatment of these fractures. We present a rare case of Hoffa's fracture in a 16-year-old girl with asso ciated ipsilateral fibular fracture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pramukswami Medical College, Sri Krishna Hospital, Karamsad 388325, Anand, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: Abhijeet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salunke
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Nambi
authors.forename: Saranjeet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Prem
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Girish
authors.forename: Danakrisna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vachalam
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D005360:Fibula / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging