Dupuytren fracture

Dupuytren fracture is an eponymous name (although not widely used in the English-speaking medical world) for an injury originally described as a mid-distal fibular fracture occurring above the syndesmosis with diastasis but now refers to that fracture pattern with various other injuries:

  • medial malleolus avulsion fracture
  • tibiofibular ligament rupture (i.e. syndesmotic injury)
  • posterior malleolus fracture