Chronic Symptomatic Ankle Avulsion Fracture

Proximal avulsion rupture of the flexor digitorum longus tendon associated with a medial malleolus ankle fracture.

Yoshida N, Tsuchida Y. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222231 Description A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency department with right lower limb pain after being hit by an excavator. His right ankle was swollen, but no open wounds were observed. Radiography and CT of the right ankle revealed a medial malleolus ankle fracture (figure 1A,B). During his treatment with osteosynthesis...

Avulsion fracture of proximal phalanx 3rd finger

Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine Avulsion Fracture

Avulsion fractures of the pelvic apophyses rarely occur in adolescent athletes in the course of sudden strong contraction of muscle attached to growth cartilage. This injury may usually be misdiagnosed for tendon or muscle strain. Patient’s history, physical examination, and radiologic studies are important for diagnosis. The literature includes only a few case reports but no case series as yet...

Paratrooper's Ankle Fracture: Posterior Malleolar Fracture

BACKGROUND We assessed the frequency and types of ankle fractures that frequently occur during parachute landings of special operation unit personnel and analyzed the causes. METHODS Fifty-six members of the special force brigade of the military who had sustained ankle fractures during parachute landings between January 2005 and April 2010 were retrospectively analyzed. The injury sites and f...

Bimalleolar Ankle Fracture: a Simple Fracture?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of deltoid ligament injury in bimalleolar supination-external rotation type fractures and whether there is a correlation between the size of the fractured medial malleolus and deltoid ligament injury . METHODS Twenty six consecutive patients underwent magnetic resonance exams after clinical and radiographic diagnosis of bimalleolar supination-external rotat...