Open AccessChronic tendoachilles rupture
Author(s) -
Rahul R Bagul,
Tushar Agarwal,
Mahendra Bendale,
Tarun Kukreja
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medical journal of dr. d y patil university/medical journal of dr. d.y. patil university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7119
pISSN - 0975-2870
DOI - 10.4103/0975-2870.153162
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , chronic disease , cover (algebra) , engineering , mechanical engineering
We report two cases of chronic tendoachilles (TA) rupture, which was treated with V-Y plasty and turned down flap from the proximal segment to cover the defect. Chronic TA ruptures can be challenging to treat. A number of operations have been described for the repair and augmentation of the chronic TA rupture