Classification in orthopaedics

Classification 

Use for 

Gartland classification 

Supra condylar fracture of
humerus

Mason classification 

Radius head fracture 

Salter & harris classification 

Epiphyseal injury

Tsuge classification 

Volkmann’s ischemic contracture 

Gustilo Anderson classification

For open injury 

Tscherne Classification 

For close injury

• Garden classification

• Delbet classification

• Pauwel’s classification

Femur neck fracture

Young-Burgess classification

(based on the direction of

forces that caused the injury

Pelvic fracture

Lichtenstein classification

Bone tumors

MSTS* staging system

Staging of bone tumor

Judet and Letournel

classification

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