E. Vanfrank et al., BILATERAL CALCANEAL FRACTURE IN CHILDHOOD - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OFTHE LITERATURE, Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 118(1-2), 1998, pp. 111-112
Calcaneal fractures in young children are rare. Bilateral calcaneal fr
actures in this age group are exceptional. In the literature only 4 ca
ses of bilateral calcaneal fractures have been reported, and the young
est patient was 6 years old (range 6-17 years) [2, 8]. Jonasch [4] est
imated that calcaneal fractures accounted for 0.005% of all fractures
before the age of 15, in contrast to 1%-2% in adults. This is confirme
d by other studies [5, 8, 10]. It is not unlikely that the incidence i
s indeed higher because the joint involvement in childhood injuries is
often subtle, and the fracture can easily be overlooked on initial X-
ray examination [7, 8]. We survey the literature and report the case o
f a 5-year-old boy who sustained bilateral calcaneal fractures and an
additional fracture of the neck of the talus on one side, a combinatio
n which to our knowledge has never been described before.