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Staton L Phillips1, Daniel Williams1, Luckshmana Jeyaseelan1
1Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics Department, Queen's Hospital, Romford, Essex, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We present the case of a 14-year-old female who presented with unilateral pes planus 30 months after a bimalleolar ankle fracture dislocation. At surgery, the tibialis posterior tendon was encased in fracture callus within the syndesmosis and required reconstruction using flexor digitorum longus transfer. Dislocation of the tibialis posterior tendon and entrapment within the tibiofibular syndesmosis has been previously reported. To our knowledge, this is the first case report tibialis posterior tendon syndesmotic entrapment presenting with unilateral pes planus.
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