Separate centre of ossification of the lateral malleolus with instability of the ankle joint
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1Department of Orthopaedics, East Hospital, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Four cases of recurrent instability of the ankle joint are reported. The instability was associated with a separate centre of ossification of the lateral malleolus and abnormal movement between the ossicle and the distal fibula. All patients were successfully treated by surgery: two underwent internal fixation and ligamentous reconstruction and two, ligamentous reconstruction after removal of the ossicle.