Premature Physeal Closure after a Non-Displaced Physeal Fracture of Distal Fibula

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Topi Laaksonen Jussi Kosola Yrjänä Nietosvaara Antti Stenroos

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Antti Stenroos
Helsinki New Children’s Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Premature physeal closure (PPC) may lead to clinically significant progressive angular deformity or leg length discrepancy. Many variables seem to play a role in determining which injuries result in PPC. A 8- year-old boy sustained a non-displaced physeal fracture of distal tibia and fibula. He showed no signs of PPC at 7 months post-injury. Seven years later, his ankle became painful. He had developed PPC of distal fibula causing angular ankle deformity, which was treated successfully by corrective osteotomy. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a non-displaced fracture of the distal fibula leading to PPC several years after the initial injury, which in our understanding was impossible to predict.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 30, Apr 2031
Accepted: Wed 09, Jun 2021
Published: Wed 30, Jun 2021

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© 2023 Antti Stenroos. 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. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2021.06.08