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Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature

Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus is very rare and presented in view of its rarity. A 13 years old boy presented with pain and swelling without history of trauma around left ankle of 3 months duration. The swelling was diffuse with tenderness on anterior aspect of medial malleolus. The overly...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Rajiv, Batra, Sumit, Verma, Ashu, Sharma, VK, Grover, Shabnam B
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19823663
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.38589
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author Gupta, Rajiv
Batra, Sumit
Verma, Ashu
Sharma, VK
Grover, Shabnam B
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description Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus is very rare and presented in view of its rarity. A 13 years old boy presented with pain and swelling without history of trauma around left ankle of 3 months duration. The swelling was diffuse with tenderness on anterior aspect of medial malleolus. The overlying skin was normal. The X-rays revealed fragmented accessory ossification centre of medial malleolus an left side. MRI revealed multiple foci of hypointensity in T1 and T2 weighted images of left medial malleolus apophysis. Patient was treated in below knee plaster for three weeks with restriction of sports activities for 5 weeks. The patient became asymptomatic in 8 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-27595922009-10-09 Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature Gupta, Rajiv Batra, Sumit Verma, Ashu Sharma, VK Grover, Shabnam B Indian J Orthop Case Report Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus is very rare and presented in view of its rarity. A 13 years old boy presented with pain and swelling without history of trauma around left ankle of 3 months duration. The swelling was diffuse with tenderness on anterior aspect of medial malleolus. The overlying skin was normal. The X-rays revealed fragmented accessory ossification centre of medial malleolus an left side. MRI revealed multiple foci of hypointensity in T1 and T2 weighted images of left medial malleolus apophysis. Patient was treated in below knee plaster for three weeks with restriction of sports activities for 5 weeks. The patient became asymptomatic in 8 weeks. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2759592/ /pubmed/19823663 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.38589 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Rajiv
Batra, Sumit
Verma, Ashu
Sharma, VK
Grover, Shabnam B
Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title_full Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title_fullStr Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title_short Traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: A case report with review of the literature
title_sort traction apophysitis of medial malleolus: a case report with review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19823663
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.38589
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