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Calcaneal Fractures Classification popular

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Paul Tornetta III, MD: We know decision making with respect to calcaneal fracture management can be difficult. Can classification help? Classification is only valuable if it is prognostic and if it assists decision making. Otherwise, it is useless. Expert

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- Multimedia Presentations: Trauma 
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Foot 

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Calcaneal Fractures Closed Reduction popular

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Richard E. Buckley, MD. Excellent presentation on methods of treatment of calcaneal fractures. For educational purposes may be copied, adapted and presented with acknowledgements to Dr Buckley and OTA Highly Reputable

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- Multimedia Presentations: Trauma 
- OCOSH Classification: Orthopaedic Procedures: Fracture Reduction 
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Foot 

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ORIF for fractured calcaneus?

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Bruce J. Sangeorzan, MD, is associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center. The literature is full of suggestions for the treatment of calcaneus fractures. Yet it is possible to read hundreds of papers devoted to calcaneus fractures and still not know which to treat or how to...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Foot 

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Calcaneus Fracture Wheeless popular

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Discussion:
- typically results from fall from height (see mechanism)
- 2 types of frx may occur: extr-articular and intra-articular:

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 
- Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Foot 

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Calcaneal Fracture MyPACS

Radiology Teaching Files. contributed by U Chicago radiolgists and residents

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneal Fractures - The Benefit of Operative Treatment COFAS

In any other joint, bone or part of the body, a displaced intra-articular fracture with malalignment is considered a surgical problem. It would seem logical that restoration of heel height, prevention of nerve and tendon entrapment, restoration of the normal anatomy of the heel cord, restoration of the normal contour...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneal Fractures LearningRadiology

Calcaneal Fractures “Lover’s Fractures”
Calcaneous is the most commonly fractured tarsal bone A so-called “lover’s Fracture” is an intra-articular fracture produced by an axial loading force typically produced by a leap from a height with person landing on heels (also called a “Don Juan” fracture)
Why is it called a “Lover’s fracture?”
Because it is...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneal Fractures Lecture Notes Synopsis

Lecture Notes from Dr Buckley's presentation "The Calcaneal Fracture" (qv)

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneal Stress Fracture MyPACS

Radiology Teaching Files. Contributed by Fritsch & Thompson

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneus Fractures eMedicine Orthopedics

Author: Scott Nicklebur, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. David's Georgetown Hospital
Contents - Introduction; Indications; Relevant Anatomy And Contraindications; Workup; Treatment; Complications; Outcome And Prognosis; Future And Controversies; Pictures; Bibliography

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneus Fractures eMedicine Radiology

Authors Khan et al. 2006
Contents - Introduction Radiograph CT Scan MRI Ultrasound Nuclear Medicine Intervention Pictures Bibliography
Synonyms and related keywords: calcaneum fracture, calcaneus fracture, calcaneal fractures, tarsal fracture, os-calcis fracture, os calcis fracture, Lover fracture Lover's fracture, intra-articular calcaneal fractures, extra-articular calcaneal fractures

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Calcaneus Fractures Orthopaedia

Calcaneal fractures are the most common tarsal fractures. They are caused by axial loading, most commonly from a fall or MVA. The fracture is created primarily by the driving force of the talus into the calcaneus; this crack can propagate into so called secondary fracture lines.

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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compression fracture Calcaneus

25 year old man who has pain in both feet, after jumping from 10ft up onto a hard surface. There is a curvilinear density in each calcaneum above the insertion of the long plantar ligament. The densities of the trabecula are superimposed.

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- OCOSH Classification: Investigations: Radiology - General: Radiology - Conditions 
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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CT Scan of Calcaneal Fracture Wheeless

Discussion:
- demonstrates intra-articular extension of frx
- degree of comminution of posterior facet;
- calcaneocuboid joint;
- impingement of lateral border of calcaneus on lateral malleolus and entrapment of tendons or nerves can be demonstrated; ...

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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Etiology and Evaluation of Stress Fracture of the Heel

Medscape "Ask the Experts" Posted 2001
Question What are the possible etiologies of a stress fracture of the heel in a non-athletically competitive 50-year-old woman who has a negative DEXA scan for osteoporosis? Her bone scan was positive, the x-ray was negative. What is the best next step: CT or MRI?

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- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Foot Fractures: Calcaneus Fractures 

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