Thurstan Holland sign

Salter-Harris
II (Aitken-I-Fraktur) der distalen Tibia mit Hervorhebung des metaphysären Fragments, welches mit der Epiphyse verbunden bleibt, so genanntes Thurstan Holland-Fragment.

The Thurstan Holland fragment (or Thurstan Holland sign) is an eponymous radiological sign depicting a triangular portion of the metaphysis remaining with the epiphysis in a physeal fracture. This fragment indicates a type 2 Salter-Harris fracture .
History and etymology
It is named after Charles Thurstan Holland (1863-1941), an English radiologist, and one of the trailblazers in the early development of radiology as a specialty .
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