Fracture of the lateral process of the talus. A review of thirteen cases

Persisteimt paimi about the lateral mmmargin of the ankle after injury is oftemi the result of a siisiple, isolated fracture of the lateral process of the talus. This diagnosis is frequeimtly overlooked initially, and late results of this fractume have root beemm reported. Iii a series of fifty comisecutive fractures of the talums, seeim at the Ummiversity of Ioiva, fracture of the lateral process was the second msmost commmmnommfi-acture. rfhirteemm cases of this fracture am-c here reported. Of the tiventy-omme cases already omm record, the largest series was descm’ibed in 1943 by Mar#{244}ttoli ivho collected six previously m’eported fractum’es of the lateral process of the talus amid added four of his mvii. Kleiger descl’ibed a fracture of the lateral articular surface of the talus in omse patiemmt with imo follow-up. A fracture of the lateral process of the talus was reported in 1950 by Bommmiin who noted that this fracture was uncommmmmmomi.1mm1959, Milch and Milch described a fractum’e of the talus involving the lateral msmass of the talus. Plaster-cast inmimmobilization was comm-sidei’ed adequate treatmneimt. Dimmion, in 1961, reported three cases of isolated dis-placed fracture of the posterior articular process of the talus amid pointed out tha