One hundred and twenty-three caees of the ankle. fracture have teen treated and managed in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kyungpook University Hospital during the period from January, 1968 to Decemter, 1973. One hundred and twenty three patients were analyzed cliniclally according to Lange-Hansen and Ashhurst-Bromer classification and results obtained were as follow.
1. The causes of ankle fractures were. mostly due to sutcmobile accident (61%)
2. The incideace of tratuaa was in the young man, moat frequent in 3rd decade.
3. In classification of our.materials accrding to Lange-Hansen and Ashhurst-Bromer, the type of lateral rotation is most common type in this series and the stage II of lateral rotation is. more common than other stages.
4. The average duration of cast immobilization is 10.1 weeks after closed reduction was performed, and 8.2 weeks after open reduction.
5. Anatomical reduction was obtained in 99 patients (E0.4%) and good objective clinical results in 74%.
6. The quality of clinical results depends mostly on the accuracy of the reduction, to a lesser extent on the degree of initial displacements, and least on the type of fracture and age of patient
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