Clinical Research on Foot & Ankle
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Case Report

Tibia Dome-Shaped Osteotomy for a Valgus Deformity in a Ball-and- Socket Ankle Joint: A Case Report

Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kantonsspital Baselland, CH-4410 Liestal, Switzerland

*Corresponding Author:

Beat Hintermann, MD
Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery
Kantonsspital Baselland, Rheinstrasse 26
CH-4410 Liestal, Switzerland
Tel : +4161925-3357
Fax: +41 61925-8905
E-mail: beat.hintermann@ksli.ch

Received date May 15, 2013; Accepted date July 28, 2013; Published date August 02, 2013

Citation: Colin F, Wagner P, Bolliger L, Hintermann B (2013) Tibia Dome-Shaped Osteotomy for a Valgus Deformity in a Ball-and-Socket Ankle Joint: A Case Report. Clin Res Foot Ankle 1:116. doi:

Copyright: © 2013 Colin F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

We report the case of a 64 year-old man with a painful left ankle valgus instability. The instability was associated with a ball-and-socket ankle joint due to a congenital tarsal coalition. A dome-shaped osteotomy was done of the tibia and an additional osteotomy of the fibula to rebalance the ankle joint complex. At mid-term, the ankle joint remained stable, and the patient was pain free. We demonstrate here that a dome-shaped like osteotomy is a powerful tool to rebalance a severely unstable ball-and-socket ankle joint.

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