Lisfranc injury
| Lisfranc injury | |
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| Other names | Lisfranc fracture, Lisfranc dislocation, Lisfranc fracture dislocation, tarsometatarsal injury, midfoot injury |
| An X-ray of a Lisfranc injury | |
| Specialty | Orthopedics |
A Lisfranc injury, also known as Lisfranc fracture, is an injury of the foot in which one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus.[1][2]
The injury is named after Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, a French surgeon and gynecologist who noticed this fracture pattern amongst cavalrymen in 1815, after the War of the Sixth Coalition.[3]
- ^ Lisfranc's fracture at Whonamedit?
- ^ "Lisfranc's fracture". The Free Dictionary.
- ^ Lisfranc J (1815). Nouvelle méthode opératoire pour l'amputation partielle du pied dans son articulation tarso-métatarsienne: méthode précédée des nombreuses modifications qu'a subies celle de Chopart (in French). Paris: L'imprimerie de Feuguery. pp. 1–52.