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## Introduction: One of the most common orthopedic injury injuries seen in patients at the emergency department is that of the ankle. There are some efficient protocols for their treatment, but more often the clinician is fo-cused in finding and treating possible fractures and disregards ligamentous lesions that lead to instabil-ity, if they become chronic. ## Case Report: A patient that suffered an ankle sprain was improperly handled, developed lateral instability of the ankle, and was treated surgically using an autologous semitendinosus graft. A 42-year year-old Caucasian male that after an ankle sprain was examined in various primary health -care centers, four times within six 6 months, with persistent symptoms of his left ankle. After all these months, he was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic lateral instability of the ankle that was resistant to con-servative treatment. In stress view X-rays, the talar tilt angle was 21°ο and the anterior drawer was measured at 13 mm. The patient was treated surgically with reconstruction of the anterior talofibular and the calcaneofibular ligament using an autologous semitendinosus graft from the left knee. The graft was pinned in the

Author

Christina Pechlivani; Danai Grammatikopoulou; Georgios Antonoglou; Thomas Pelopidas; Dimitrios N Varvarousis; Aristeidis Vrettakos

Published

2023