What Is an Avulsion Fracture? An avulsion fracture happens when a ligament or tendon pulls away a small piece of a bone. This usually results from an accident or traumatic injury. Avulsion ...

The most common type of avulsion injury is a skin avulsion wound. Your skin is made up of three tissue layers. From outside in, they are the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis.

Reports of isolated avulsion fracture at the planter lateral base of the first metatarsal without injury of the tarsometatarsal joint are very rare. A 24 year old man sustained an avulsion fracture at ...