Clinical Research on Foot & Ankle
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Case Report

Delayed Complex Reconstruction of Achilles Tendon After Car-Train Accident: A Case Study

Gerald T Kuwada^*

Ankle and Foot Clinic of Renton, Renton, WA, United States

*Corresponding Author:

Gerald T Kuwada
Ankle and Foot Clinic of Renton, Renton, WA, United States
Tel: +1 425-251-9174
E-mail: gkuwada.fasa@outlook.com

Received date: Jul 16, 2016; Accepted date: Aug 03, 2016; Published date: Aug 12, 2016

Citation: Kuwada GT (2016) Delayed Complex Reconstruction of Achilles Tendon After Car-Train Accident: A Case Study. Clin Res Foot Ankle 4:196. doi:10.4172/2329-910X.1000196

Copyright: © 2016 Gerald T Kuwada. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

A case study is presented after a patient was severely injured as he exited his car and the train struck his car at that moment. Twenty-five years after the injury the patient presents for consultation to reconstruct his Achilles tendon. The reconstruction was done in 1992 and the result was the patient was able to walk, run and play baseball for the first time in 25 years since his injury. In this case the superior halves of the peroneal tendons were used as autografts and re-enforced with synthetic mesh.

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