Unclassified talar neck fracture

Talar neck fractures are serious injuries associated with morbidity as a consequence of high energy impact. The Hawkins classification has been used to distinguish different types. John Duncan and colleagues, orthopaedic surgeons at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, describe a rare variant of a talar neck fracture that does not fit the Hawkins classification and which to their knowledge has only been described twice before.