Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus

BACKGROUND: Although ankle fractures and an Achilles tendon rupture are relatively frequent in isolation, their association in the same injury is uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38 year old male tree surgeon fell six meters from a tree, sustaining a subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and an...

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Autores principales: Maffulli, Nicola, Richards, Paula J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1555578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16872521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-7-59
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Richards, Paula J
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description BACKGROUND: Although ankle fractures and an Achilles tendon rupture are relatively frequent in isolation, their association in the same injury is uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38 year old male tree surgeon fell six meters from a tree, sustaining a subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and an ipsilateral closed fracture of the medial malleolus. The injuries were diagnosed following clinical examination and imaging. CONCLUSION: This injury combination is infrequent, and management of the Achilles tendon rupture should take into account the necessity not to secondarily displace the fracture of the medial malleollus.
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spelling pubmed-15555782006-08-26 Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus Maffulli, Nicola Richards, Paula J BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Although ankle fractures and an Achilles tendon rupture are relatively frequent in isolation, their association in the same injury is uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38 year old male tree surgeon fell six meters from a tree, sustaining a subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and an ipsilateral closed fracture of the medial malleolus. The injuries were diagnosed following clinical examination and imaging. CONCLUSION: This injury combination is infrequent, and management of the Achilles tendon rupture should take into account the necessity not to secondarily displace the fracture of the medial malleollus. BioMed Central 2006-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC1555578/ /pubmed/16872521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-7-59 Text en Copyright © 2006 Maffulli and Richards; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Richards, Paula J
Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title_full Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title_fullStr Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title_full_unstemmed Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title_short Subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
title_sort subcutaneous rupture of the achilles tendon and ipsilateral fracture of the medial malleolus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1555578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16872521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-7-59
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