Shota Harada, Tsukasa Teramoto, Motoyuki Takaki, Tomohiko Asahara, Narutaka Katoh, Nobuyuki Takenaka, Takashi Matsushita, Takahiro Inui, Yoshinobu Watanabe, Yukinobu Nishii, Kiyoto Kinugasa, Kazutaka Otsuka
INTRODUCTION: Traumatic osteoarthritis of the ankle joint caused after malleolar fractures of the ankle and tibial plafond fractures are frequently observed in comparatively young and highly active patients. Since the ankle movement in these patients is in general, comparatively favorable, orthopedists may sometimes have difficulty in deciding on a treatment policy. In our department, when treating traumatic osteoarthritis patients having a movable range within their ankle joints, we proactively applied distal tibial oblique osteotomy (DTOO) developed by Dr...
August 21, 2021: Injury