From the *Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; †Department of Paediatric Surgery, Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Children's Hospital, Bern Switzerland; ‡Department of Orthopaedics, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA; §Greenville University Medical Center, Greenville, SC; ∥Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA; ¶Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; #University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; **Department of Orthopaedics, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; ††Orthopaedic Trauma, St. Elizabeth Health Center, Orthopaedic Surgery Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Youngstown, OH; ‡‡AO Clinical Investigation and Documentation, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Correspondence: JL Marsh, MD, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, 01071 JPP, Dept. of Orthopaedics, Iowa City, IA 52242 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Disclosure: Dr. Henley is a consultant for Zimmer. The remaining authors report no conflicts of interest.
Material presented in this Compendium is based on the Comprehensive Classification of Fractures of Long Bones, by M.E. Müller, J. Nazarian, P. Koch and J. Schatzker, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990. The Orthopaedic Trauma Association is indebted to Professor Maurice Müller for allowing the Association to use the system.