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Percutaneous repair of ruptured Achilles tendon
1North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
|October 5, 2002
Abstract:
Percutaneous repair of a ruptured Achilles tendon is a safe and reliable method of treating such injuries in patients with low sporting requirements. It has a lower incidence of wound complications compared with open techniques but a slightly higher incidence of re-rupture. Sural nerve injury is avoidable by careful placement of the incisions