Author(s)

Fatih Türkmensoy, Ismail Türkmen, Yalçın Turhan, Korhan Özkan, Mehmet Akif Akçal

Department of Ortho- paedics and Traumatology, Kilis State Hospital, Kilis, Turkey..
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Düzce Atatürk State Hospital, Düzce, Turkey.
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, G?ztepe Training and Research Hospital, ?stanbul Medeniyet University, ?stanbul, Turkey;.

Achilles tendon ruptures and malleol fractures are commonly seen injuries in orthopaedic and traumatology practice, but what is rare is their concomitant. In this report, we aimed to present a rare case of a patient who has isolated medial malleolar fracture and achilles tendon rupture in ipsilateral ankle after an ankle sprain due to a fall from stairs and mechanism of injury.

Achilles Tendon Rupture and Malleol Fracture; Injury Mechanism

F. Türkmensoy, I. Türkmen, Y. Turhan, K. Özkan and M. Akçal, "Achilles Tendon Rupture with Isolated Medial Malleolar Fracture in Ipsilateral Ankle: A Case Report," Open Journal of Orthopedics, Vol. 3 No. 5, 2013, pp. 224-226. doi: 10.4236/ojo.2013.35042.