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CASE REPORT
Talus fracture in a 4-year-old child
  1. Aurélien Michel-Traverso1⇑,
  2. Trieu Hoai Nam Ngo1,
  3. Clémence Bruyere2,
  4. Marco Saglini3
  1. 1 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
  2. 2 Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
  3. 3 EHC Morges, Morges, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aurélien Michel-Traverso, auremt{at}gmail.com

Summary

Fracture of the talus is uncommon in childhood. We report a case of talar neck fracture that occurred in a 4-year-old girl. We present the radiological findings, the orthopaedic follow-up and the clinical outcome.

  • Trauma
  • Emergency medicine
  • Orthopaedics
  • Paediatrics

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-215063

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AM-T, T

      HNN and

      CB contributed to writing this case report.

      MS is the guarantor.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed