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Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation

The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body, which is commonly ruptured in male athletes. Bilateral rupture of the Achilles tendon is a rare condition with very few reported cases in the literature. It poses a challenge in management, and hence, we report a case with traumatic bilateral...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Chirag, Jhaveri, Maulik, Golwala, Paresh, Merh, Aditya, Patel, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27588227
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.706
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author Kapoor, Chirag
Jhaveri, Maulik
Golwala, Paresh
Merh, Aditya
Patel, Amit
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description The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body, which is commonly ruptured in male athletes. Bilateral rupture of the Achilles tendon is a rare condition with very few reported cases in the literature. It poses a challenge in management, and hence, we report a case with traumatic bilateral Achilles tendon rupture in a young male patient and its management. One side was treated conservatively as the rupture was partial and the other side, which had a complete tear, was operated. At nine months follow-up, the patient has had a satisfactory result and is now bearing full weight without any problems. We suggest this method of treatment to be worthwhile for this unusual entity.
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spelling pubmed-49993522016-09-01 Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation Kapoor, Chirag Jhaveri, Maulik Golwala, Paresh Merh, Aditya Patel, Amit Cureus Radiology The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body, which is commonly ruptured in male athletes. Bilateral rupture of the Achilles tendon is a rare condition with very few reported cases in the literature. It poses a challenge in management, and hence, we report a case with traumatic bilateral Achilles tendon rupture in a young male patient and its management. One side was treated conservatively as the rupture was partial and the other side, which had a complete tear, was operated. At nine months follow-up, the patient has had a satisfactory result and is now bearing full weight without any problems. We suggest this method of treatment to be worthwhile for this unusual entity. Cureus 2016-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4999352/ /pubmed/27588227 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.706 Text en Copyright © 2016, Kapoor et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Kapoor, Chirag
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Golwala, Paresh
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Patel, Amit
Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title_full Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title_fullStr Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title_short Acute Bilateral Traumatic Achilles Tendon Rupture – A Rare Presentation
title_sort acute bilateral traumatic achilles tendon rupture – a rare presentation
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27588227
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.706
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