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  • Title: [Ankle joint injuries in children. Chief presentation of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Traumatology and Insurance Medicine, 4-5 September 1997, Winterthur].
    Author: Altermatt S.
    Journal: Swiss Surg; 1998; 4(2):70-4. PubMed ID: 9587232.
    Abstract:
    Children are not just small adults. Depending on age and skeletal maturity, they demonstrate typical lesions. All major ankle ligaments, except the interosseous ligament, either insert or originate from the tibial and fibular epiphysis. In young children, the physeal structures are more likely to break than the ligaments. After a sprain of the ankle, we observe avulsion fractures of the ligaments or physeal fractures as described by Salter and Harris. In adolescents ligamentous ruptures can occur and, because of the asymmetric physeal closure, two- and threeplane fractures (transitional fractures) appear.
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