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  • Title: Clinical diagnosis, arthrography, stress examination and surgical findings after inversion trauma of the ankle.
    Author: van den Hoogenband CR, van Moppes FI, Stapert JW, Greep JM.
    Journal: Arch Orthop Trauma Surg (1978); 1984; 103(2):115-9. PubMed ID: 6477070.
    Abstract:
    In a series of 921 patients with acute inversion trauma of the ankle joint, the diagnostic features of lateral ligamentous ruptures were evaluated. Patients with proven lateral ligamentous rupture (150 patients in this series) were submitted to a prospective trial to compare three methods of treatment. In the 50 patients operated upon, the results of clinical diagnosis, stress radiography, and ankle arthrography were compared with surgical findings. Clinical diagnosis proved to be of very little value. The positive signs of ankle arthrography showed a reliability of 96% in predicting ligamentous rupture. Inversion stress radiography under full anesthesia showed a reliability of 92%, but the same investigation under local anesthesia, however, was only 68%.
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