Salter-Harris fracture classification (mnemonic)

Useful mnemonics for remembering the Salter-Harris classification system are:

• SALTR
• SMACK

Fortunately, this is also the order of prognosis (from best to worse)

Mnemonics

SALTR

• S: slipped (type I)
• A: above or away from joint (type II)
• L: lower (type III)
• T: through or transverse or together (type IV)
• R: ruined or rammed (type V)

SMACK

• S: slipped (type I)
• M: metaphyseal (type II)
• A: articular-epiphyseal (type III)
• C: complete-metaphysis and epiphysis (type IV)
• K: krushed! (type V)

Siehe auch:

• Aitken-Klassifikation
• Salter-Harris Klassifikation
• Twoplane-Fraktur
• Triplane-Fraktur

und weiter:

• Fraktureinteilung
• Epiphysenlösung