Achilles Tendon Ruptures in Young Female Basketball Players: A Case Series.
case_series · Level IV
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31588421.
- Also identified by DOI 10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-19-00016 and PMC identifier 6738549.
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Abstract
Achilles tendon ruptures are a common entity in middle-aged male athletes. There have been limited reports of these injuries in female athletes in general and no reports that we are aware of teenage female athletes with complete tears that required surgical intervention. We present a case series of three female basketball players treated at the same institution by the same surgeon under the age of 20 over a 9-month period with complete Achilles tendon ruptures that underwent surgery. Clinicians should be aware of this pathology when seeing female athletes with calf pain.