Savas P Nenopoulos, Vasilios A Papavasiliou, At V Papavasiliou
Nine rotational injuries of the distal tibial growth plate in combination with spiral fracture of the fibula were treated in our department between 1993 and 2000. The average age of the patients was 12 years. The injury was a result of sudden, forceful external rotation of the ankle and foot. Pain and slight swelling of the ankle and external rotation of the distal tibia of 20 degrees -40 degrees were present. Radiologically, irregularity and widening of the growth plate of the distal tibia were obvious. In all these cases we noted, on lateral views, the characteristic sign of an "open fish mouth," due to the changes in the shape of the physeal plate...
2003: Journal of Orthopaedic Science: Official Journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association