Medicine:Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture

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Le Fort's fracture of the ankle is a vertical fracture of the antero-medial part of the distal fibula with avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament,[1] opposite to a Tillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture The injury was described by Léon Clément Le Fort in 1886.[2]

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  1. Tim B Hunter; Leonard F Peltier; Pamela J Lund (2000). "Musculoskeletal Eponyms: Who Are Those Guys?". RadioGraphics 20: 829. doi:10.1148/radiographics.20.3.g00ma20819. PMID 10835130. 
  2. Le Fort, LC (1886). "Note sur une variete non-decrite de fracture verticale de la malleole externe par arrachement.". Bull Gen Ther 110: 193–199. 

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