CASE REPORT: Talus fracture in a 4-year-old child

Ngo, Trieu Hoai Nam
Michel-Traverso, Aurélien
Bruyere, Clémence
Saglini, Marco

¹Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland,
²Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland,
³EHC Morges, Morges, Switzerland,

Correspondence to Dr Aurélien Michel-Traverso, e-mail; [email protected]

/Accepted March 24, 2017

Contributors AM-T, T

HNN and

CB contributed to writing this case report.

MS is the guarantor.

Competing interests None declared.

Patient consent Guardian consent obtained.

Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed

BMJ Case Reports 2017:p 215063, January 2017. | DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2016-215063

Fracture of the talus is uncommon in childhood. We report a case of talar neck fracture that occurred in a 4-year-old girl. We present the radiological findings, the orthopaedic follow-up and the clinical outcome.