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WHLLE osteochondritis dissecans of the knee is comparatively common, the occurrence of the condition in the ankle appears to be sufficiently unusual to warrant the recording of a single case. ## CASE REPORT HISToRY.-Miss Z . M., a European schoolteacher, aged 26, was first seen on July 16, 1948, when she stated that she had " put out " her left ankle a few hours previously. She had been sitting on the floor in a cross-leg position, and on rising to her feet she had felt a sudden sharp pain in the left ankle, and immediately had the sensation that the joint was locked. The pain had rapidly subsided to a dull ache, but the sensation of locking persisted. She gave a previous history of a severe sprain of the left ankle in 1940, since when there had been occasional brief, sharp pains in the joint, and on one occasion twelve months ago momentary locking had occurred. Those subsequent incidents were not provoked by any further particular trauma to the ankle. ON EXAMINATION.-The left ankle-joint was held in a position of mid-plantar flexion. The only active movement possible was a slight increase in the amount of plantar flexion. On passive movement a greater degree of plantar flexion was

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Author

T. R. Simpson; S. Rhodesia

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

1950

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)