UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: What's the diagnosis? Images by Dr. Mak Moayedi

Posted: 9/4/2011 by Haney Mallemat, MD (Emailed: 9/5/2011) (Updated: 8/28/2014)
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Question

26 year old male presents s/p basketball dunk. Diagnosis?

Answer

Answer: Talar dislocation

Below, a post-reduction Xray, as well as a link to a video demonstrating a few ankle reductions (the video's background music makes all the difference): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzqCsLX1K1E

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