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European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 6/2010

01-12-2010 | Editorial

Focus on malleolar fractures

Author: D. Heim

Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery | Issue 6/2010

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Excerpt

“If you’ve never felt your ankle explode, don’t try it.” Derek Franklin, though, did it at the last fence in the steeplechase at Cheltenham and he broke his ankle! His orthopaedic surgeon (“he was himself a plate-and-screw man by preference”) gave him (at the patient’s wish) the support of a plain crêpe. And it worked, though Franklin complained at times about his ankle—the murderer of his brother was found, and “though I might hurt and I might throb, I didn’t think I had ever been happier” [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
Focus on malleolar fractures
Author
D. Heim
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
Urban and Vogel
Published in
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 1863-9933
Electronic ISSN: 1863-9941
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-010-0056-3

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