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Maisonneuve Fracture Wheeless (Visit Resource)

a proximal fracture of fibula resulting from external rotation
Injury may occur with medial malleolus avulsion fracture or deltoid ligament rupture, rupture of anterior talofibular ligament or avulsion of its insertion, as well as rupture of interosseous ligament, rupture of posterior tibiofibular ligament, or posterior malleolar fracture
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

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