M. Pardha Saradhi1, S. Kishore Babu2, Sandeep Saraf3, Sasi Bushan Reddy4, K. Harish5
Hoffa fracture was first described by FRIEDRICH BUSCH, a surgeon from Berlin in 1869, and always supposed by ALBERT HOFFA in 1904. It is a rare injury consisting of tangential (CORONAL SHEAR) fracture of distal femoral condyles. These fractures are due to high energy trauma and typically seen in a motor bike accident in a young patient subjected to shear force in both sagittal and coronal plane.(1) These fractures are not easy to visualise on routine imaging and therefore could represent a diagnostic challenge to the accident department and orthopaedic surgeons.(2)
