Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1928;10:306-313.
© 1928 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
THE INCIDENCE OF SUBASTRAGALOID DISLOCATION OF THE FOOT WITH A REPORT OF ONE CASE OF THE INWARD TYPE
A. R. SHANDS JR. M.D.1
1 The Orthopaedic Department of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
1. One case of the inward type of subastragaloid dislocation without fracture is reported.
2. There are a total of 139 reported cases of subastragaloid dislocation in the literature.
3. The inward type constitutes fifty-five and four-tenths per cent. of this number, the outward type thirty-three and one-tenth per cent., the backward type seven and two-tenths per cent., and the forward type four and three-tenths per cent.
4. The most common age is in the third decade between twenty and twenty-nine years.
5. The dislocation is six times more common in men than in women.