Score: Essex-Lopresti classification

Use: Calcaneal fractures

Extra-articular

  • anterior process
  • tuberosity (beak or avulsion)
  • medial process
  • sustentaculum tali
  • body
  • Intra-articular

  • 70-75% of fractures are associated with joint involvement
  • undisplaced
  • joint depression type
  • comminuted
  • Reference

    Classification and Diagnosis in Orthopaedic Trauma. Editors: Rahij Anwar, Kenneth W. R. Tuson, Shah Alam Khan. Cambridge University Press, 2008