Medical Must-See: Extremely rare case of pure ankle dislocation
The injury accounts for just 0.46% of all ankle dislocations, doctors report.
When a young man presented to ED with a swollen ankle after falling from a small height, his doctors did not expect to stumble upon an extremely rare form injury.
The 22-year-old had fallen just 1m down a flight of stairs, but it was enough to cause a closed pure ankle dislocation.
The injury accounts for only 0.065% of all ankle injuries and 0.46% of all ankle dislocations, according to doctors from the Venizeleio General Hospital in Heraklion, Crete.
The patient complained of right ankle pain and inability to bear weight immediately after the fall, with his foot displaced in the posteromedial direction with swelling.
