DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i08.055

Pages: 3023-3025

The lower limb contains two long bones, the fibula and tibia, which are situated beside each other. The fibula bone lies on the lateral aspect of the lower limb and forms joints with the tibia and the talus in the ankle. Fractures of the tibia generally are associated with fibula fracture, because the force is transmitted along the interosseous membrane to the fibula. Fibular fractures may be complete, incomplete or displaced fracture. Fibular fractures are usually not so dangerous, because the bone is supports only about 17% of the body weight. The materials and methods in this study, all fatal road traffic accident and fall from height cases autopsied during the period 1stJanuary 2011 to 31st December 2014 were analyzed at the Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIMS, BG Nagar, and Karnataka. The incidence, age wise distribution of cases and types of fibula fracture were noted. In Results and Discussion in our study total numbers of autopsied cases during 2011 to 2014 are 453. In that 21 cases had FIBULA fracture. Maximum number of victims belongs to 21-30 years (08 cases) decade followed by 31-40 years (07 cases). Manner of fracture was Road traffic accident in 19 cases and fall from height in 2 cases. 14 cases had lower 1/3 rd fibula Fractures and 05 cases had fracture at middle 1/3rd region. In Conclusion the fibula is the non-weight bearing bone of the ankle, located on the lateral side of the leg. Fibula fractures occur generally with trauma or are associated with lateral ankle sprains.