Schatzker classification
Trauma and orthopaedics
Also known as: Schatzker-Klassifikation (Tibiakopffraktur) · Schatzker sınıflaması (tibia plato kırığı) · Schatzker classification (tibial plateau fractures)
What it is for
Six types of tibial plateau fracture by which plateau is involved and by split versus depression; types I–IV are unicondylar, V–VI bicondylar.
Classification
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Type I | split (wedge) fracture of the lateral plateau without relevant depression. |
| Type II | split-depression fracture of the lateral plateau. |
| Type III | pure depression of the lateral plateau without a split. |
| Type IV | fracture of the medial plateau (split, with or without depression). |
| Type V | bicondylar fracture (wedge fractures of both the lateral and the medial plateau). |
| Type VI | plateau fracture with dissociation of metaphysis and diaphysis (transverse or oblique metaphyseal-diaphyseal fracture line). |
Source
The tibial plateau fracture. The Toronto experience 1968–1975
Clin Orthop Relat Res 1979;(138):94–104 (Schatzker J, McBroom R, Bruce D)
PMID: 445923
- Edition
- Schatzker 1979 (types I–VI); a CT-based Kfuri-Schatzker revision adds anterior/posterior subdivisions
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