TY - JOUR
T1 - A rare cause of lateral ankle pain: A symptomatic talus secundarius
AU - Zwiers, Ruben
AU - de Leeuw, Peter A. J.
AU - Kerkhoffs, Gino M. M. J.
AU - van Dijk, C. Niek
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The talus secundarius is one of the rarest accessory tarsal bones, being present in 0.01% of all ankles. It is located at the lateral side of the talus, distally to the tip of the fibula. Hitherto, only five cases of a symptomatic talus secundarius have been described in literature. We presented a case of bilateral symptomatic talus secundarius in a young gymnast. There was a difference in size of the two accessory bones. The large talus secundarius in the left ankle was fixated, in the right ankle the fragment was excised. Both excision and fixation in the presented patient led to satisfactory results, both in the short and long term outcome. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of European Foot and Ankle Society
AB - The talus secundarius is one of the rarest accessory tarsal bones, being present in 0.01% of all ankles. It is located at the lateral side of the talus, distally to the tip of the fibula. Hitherto, only five cases of a symptomatic talus secundarius have been described in literature. We presented a case of bilateral symptomatic talus secundarius in a young gymnast. There was a difference in size of the two accessory bones. The large talus secundarius in the left ankle was fixated, in the right ankle the fragment was excised. Both excision and fixation in the presented patient led to satisfactory results, both in the short and long term outcome. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of European Foot and Ankle Society
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fas.2017.03.011
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fas.2017.03.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 29202998
SN - 1460-9584
VL - 23
SP - E20-E24
JO - Foot and Ankle Surgery
JF - Foot and Ankle Surgery
IS - 4
ER -