European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Mutual position of the distal fibular physis and the tibiotalar joint space - radiological typology and clinical significance.
The mutual position of the distal fibular physis compared to the tibiotalar joint space in the immature skeleton was investigated in X-ray studies. The clinical relevance of the recorded mutual position was evaluated for paediatric skeletal traumatology. ⋯ There are three radiological types of immature ankle joint. Type 1 is only an evolutionary type without clinical significance, type 2 predisposes to physeal and type 3 to metaphyseal fibular injury in combination with distal tibial physeal injury.