Weightbearing Cone-Beam Computed Tomography of Acute Ankle Syndesmosis Injuries

Syndesmotic injuries are common, but only a subset of these injuries are unstable. A noninvasive tool for identifying instability would aid in the selection of patients for surgery. Weightbearing computed tomography (CT) data have been reported for healthy patients, but there are limited data on unstable syndesmoses. We evaluated the syndesmotic area of arthroscopically proven unstable ankles after acute injury. This is a prospective comparative study of consecutive patients recruited to a weightbearing CT database.

Source: Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery - February 25, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Andres del Rio, Samuel M. Bewsher, Sasha Roshan-Zamir, Julie Tate, Maggie Eden, Robert Gotmaker, Otis Wang, Harvinder S. Bedi, Andrew H. Rotstein Source Type: research