Erschienen in:
01.12.2010 | Editorial
Focus on malleolar fractures
verfasst von:
D. Heim
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
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Ausgabe 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” [
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