Open AccessA CASE REPORT OF TRIMALLEOLAR FRACTURE TREATED WITH PLATING AND TENSION BAND WIRING
Author(s) -
Ajay Krishna,
Thiagarajan Pandian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.36106/ijsr/9817437
Subject(s) - ankle , medicine , surgery , tension band wiring , neurovascular bundle , foot (prosody) , fracture (geology) , geology , linguistics , philosophy , elbow , olecranon , geotechnical engineering
A case of trimalleolar fractures of left ankle has been described here. Fractures around the ankle joint mainly depend on the direction of forces during trauma ,position of the ankle and foot at the hour of injury. A 44 year-old man fell off a two wheeler on a road and sustained injury to his left ankle. X-ray radiographs were taken and patient was diagnosed to have left sided post traumatic closed trimalleolar fracture with lauge Hansen classification of supination external rotation without any distal neurovascular deficit. Patient underwent osteosyntheses and During the post-operative period there was no complications.