Magnetic resonance tomography in the assessment of the ankle ligament damage for the ankle advanced injuries

Abstract

85 patients at the age of 17-61 years with the ankle advanced injuries have been examined by the technique of magnetic resonance tomography (MRT). The patients had the sequences of the ankle bone fractures, accompanied by ligamentous apparatus advanced damages, the chronic instability of the ankle due to damaging the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis ligamentous apparatus, the posttraumatic deforming osteoarthrosis, accompanied by pain syndrome. In the long-term period the character of changes in the ligaments damaged has been caused by fibroblastic processes in the avulsion or rupture zone of ligament, its irregular thickening, avulsion dislocation, wavy contours, moderate perifocal edema.