cuboid fractures

Cuboid Fractures

Types

 

1.  Capsular avulsions

 

2.  Body / Nutcracker fracture

 

Nutcracker fracture

 

Epidemiology

- rare

 

Mechanism

- forced eversion / abduction of forefoot

- cuboid crushed between 4th and 5th MT and calaneum

 

Pathology

- displaced cuboid fracture with subluxation of tarsus