Supracondylar Fracture
Mechanism
FOOSH
Epidemiology
Age 6 as maximum ligamentous laxity
- < 4 - physeal separation
- > 8 - dislocation
Male > F
Pathoanatomy
Supracondylar region in 6 year old is thin
- thinnest at olecranon fossa (2-3 mm)