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As the number of fracture lines increase, so does the risk of long-term joint damage. Trimalleolar ankle fractures and pilon fractures have the most cartilage injury and, therefore, have a higher risk ...
Although Cooper had called attention to articular fractures of the posterior tibia in his 1822 treatise by including an illustration of one that had healed with posterior talar subluxation, Earle ...
Posterior Malleolus Fractures Posterior malleolus fractures can be challenging to an orthopedist since the fracture pattern is often irregular. They can shatter into multiple fragments and are often ...
Trimalleolar Ankle Fractures Trimalleolar ankle fractures are another variant of this type of injury. The typical bimalleolar fracture involves bone injury to the inner and outer side of the ankle.
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Posterior malleolar fractures are typically associated with fractures of the medial and lateral malleoli, which, after stabilization of the posterior fragment, should be managed by the same ...
Women ages 75 to 84 most commonly get trimalleolar ankle fractures because they fall more. Young and middle-aged men who get hit or land with a lot of force while doing an activity are the second ...
A posterior malleolus fracture means that there has been a break on the lower back side of the tibia or shin bone. This type of injury is rare in isolation, so it’s likely that if you have a ...
The fall resulted in a severe trimalleolar ankle fracture, affecting all three ankle bones – the distal fibula (lateral malleolus) and the medial and posterior malleolus.
FIGURE 1. Type B lateral malleolar fracture fixed by the antiglide-buttress plate mode that is applied on the posterolateral side. (A) A 72-year-old female patient with injury to the left lateral ...
In Lauge-Hansen classification (5), stage I pronation-external rotation injuries represent injury to the medial structures (medial malleolus or deltoid ligament), stage II is the rupture of the ...