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 ...

Traumatic optic nerve head avulsion and traumatic optic neuropathy are serious and can be visually devastating. Most cases have poor prognosis for visual recovery, leaving patients with minimal or ...

Avulsion fractures of the anterior superior iliac spine without neurological symptoms can be treated conservatively, because of the benign short run. 4, 8, 9 Open reduction and internal fixation can ...

The 22-year-old New Jersey native announced in an Instagram post she has an "avulsion fracture of my patella," which cost her Friday night's meet. "It absolutely breaks my heart not to get the ...

Dunne, who is also a social media influencer and the girlfriend of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, has been sidelined for the last month with an avulsion fracture in her kneecap.

On Sunday, a report surfaced that Rodgers' injury is an avulsion fracture of the thumb, according to NFL Network. While that type of injury typically leads to surgery, Rodgers said that he has not ...