Medicine
Epidemiology of ankle arthritis: report of a consecutive series of 639 patients from a tertiary orthopaedic center.
C. Saltzman, Michael L. Salamon, G. Blanchard, Thomas W. Huff, Andrea Hayes, J. Buckwalter, A. Amendola
tlooto Summary
The majority of ankle arthritis is associated with previous trauma, whereas the primary cause of knee or hip arthritis is idiopathic, and unique strategies to prevent or treat post-traumatic ankle arthritis are needed.
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SALTZMAN, C., et al. Epidemiology of ankle arthritis: Report of a consecutive series of 639 patients from a tertiary orthopaedic center. The Iowa orthopaedic journal, 2005, 25: 44–6.