Open AccessFalse negative rate of syndesmotic injury in pronation-external rotation stage IV ankle fractures
Author(s) -
KyungBin Song,
Sin-Gi Kim,
Young-Jae Lim,
Jong-Hyuk Jeon,
Kyunng-Keun Min
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.118204
Subject(s) - medicine , syndesmosis , ankle , radiography , diastasis , tibia , external rotation , orthodontics , stress fractures , fibula , stage (stratigraphy) , ankle injury , surgery , geology , paleontology
To investigate false negative rate in the diagnosis of diastasis on initial static anteroposterior radiograph and reliability of intraoperative external rotational stress test for detection of concealed disruption of syndesmosis in pronation external rotation (PER) stage IV (Lauge-Hansen) ankle fractures.