Hsuan-Kai Kao1, James G Gamble2. 1. Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 5 Fusing Street, Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County, 33305, Taiwan. 2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 300 Pasteur Drive, Edwards Building R105, Stanford, California, 94304-5341.
Abstract
CASE: Fractures of the talus in children and adolescents are uncommon and generally involve the body or neck of the talus. We present a thirteen-year-old dancer with an ununited fracture of the posterior process of the talus that was initially thought to be a painful os trigonum. CONCLUSION: This injury was confused with a painful os trigonum. We found that the size of the fragment, the extent to which the fracture line undercut the tibial plafond, and the findings on magnetic resonance imaging were helpful in clarifying the diagnosis of the fracture.
CASE: Fractures of the talus in children and adolescents are uncommon and generally involve the body or neck of the talus. We present a thirteen-year-old dancer with an ununited fracture of the posterior process of the talus that was initially thought to be a painful os trigonum. CONCLUSION: This injury was confused with a painful os trigonum. We found that the size of the fragment, the extent to which the fracture line undercut the tibial plafond, and the findings on magnetic resonance imaging were helpful in clarifying the diagnosis of the fracture.