The maisonneuve fracture named after a french surgeon is an injury to the ankle involving both a fracture and a sprain. My surgeon documented a maisonneuve fracture but i cant find this terminology anywhere.
Full length tibia or proximal tibia to rule out maisonneuve type fracture.
Maisonneuve type fracture. There is sparse information in the literature on the outcome of maisonneuve type pronation. Fibula fracture anywhere from head or as far down as 6cm above ankle joint deltoid ligament rupture or medial malleolus avulsion fracture injury then. Maisonneuve fracture refers to a combination of a fracture of the proximal fibula together with an unstable ankle injury widening of the ankle mortise on x ray.
Returns to baseline at nine weeks for operatively treated ankle fractures. We report five cases of maisonneuve and maisonneuve type fractures which were treated with a single suprasyndesmotic percutaneous diastasis screw with good. The maisonneuve fracture is a spiral fracture of the proximal third of the fibula associated with a tear of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis and the interosseous.
Is there a cpt code for treating this injury. People who searched maisonneuve type fracture also searched. Maisonneuve fracture is a severe ankle injury which arises due to a spiral fracture of the proximal third of the fibula along with a tear of the distal tibiofibular.
Fractures of the. Arthroscopic findings in maisonneuve fractures.
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