-
Case Reports
Os subtibiale: Mimicking medial malleolar fracture a report of three cases and review of literature.
- Murat Topal, Ahmet Köse, Recep Dinçer, Tuncay Baran, Mehmet Köse, and M Çağatay Engin.
- TC SB SBÜ Erzurum Bölge Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Kliniği, Turkey. Electronic address: topal.md@gmail.com.
- Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Jun 1; 35 (6): 940.e1-940.e3.
AbstractThere are numerous sesamoids and accessory ossicles around the foot which can easily be misdiagnosed as fractures. Os subtibiale is a very rare normal variant of the medial malleolus which is usually diagnosed incidentally in routine ankle radiographs. In this report, we present a case series of 3 patients with os subtibiale who were admitted to the emergency department with ankle sprains and misdiagnosed as medial malleolar fractures. We would like to raise awareness to the very rare and usually asymptomatic os subtibiale as a diagnostic pitfall.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..