Category: Visual Diagnosis
Posted: 4/13/2015 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Patient presents with leg and ankle pain after a fall 3 weeks earlier. Initial ankle Xrays were negative. Patient presents today with persistent leg and ankle pain. What's the diagnosis and what other imaging would you perform and why?
Proximal fibula fracture; have a high-clinical suspicion for a Maisonneuve fracture and consider CT scan of the ankle
Maisonneuve fracture
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