Twist and Shout: A Stressed Out Ankle
Author: Mindy Sharon, MD, MPH
Peer-Reviewer: R. Conner Dixon, MD, CAQ-SM
Final Editor: Alex Tomesch, MD, CAQ-SM
A 20-year-old female presents with right ankle pain after a ground level mechanical fall. She has tenderness to palpation of her right lateral malleolus with associated swelling. She was unable to ambulate after her fall.
Image 1. A/P film of right ankle. Case courtesy of Alborz Jahangiri, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 46843
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