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Diastasis (Subscribe)

Distal Tibio-fibular diastasis
[OCOSH Code: D016512 74383007 S93.4 WI_FR_A_D]

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Operative Treatment of Weber C Ankle Fractures popular

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Ankle Fractures: Bimalleolar Fractures
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Ankle Fractures: Diastasis
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Ankle

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Posterior malleolar stabilization of syndesmotic injuries is equivalent to screw fixation CORR Open Access

Location: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835618

Background Fixation of unstable ankle fractures, including fixation of posterior malleolus fracture fragments with the attached, intact posteroinferior tibiofibular ligament (PITFL), reportedly provides more stable fixation than transsyndesmotic screws.
Questions/Purposes To confirm this observation we compared the Foot and Ankle Outcome Score (FAOS) and radiographic maintenance of fixation for fractures treated through direct...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Ankle Fractures: Diastasis

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Syndesmotic Injury Wheeless

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Syndesmotic Injuries of the Ankle
syndesmosis is made up of anterior-inferior tibiofibular ligament, interosseous ligament, and posterior-inferior fibular ligaments, inferior transverse tibiofibular ligament, and interosseous ligament;
- these stabilize the mortise by opposing the fibula in the fibular notch (incisura fibularis tibiae); ...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Ankle Fractures: Diastasis
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Ankle

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