Medical Transcription Word Board archived thread

k
Sm please re ankle injury. Thanks.
Tue Sep 23, 2003 08:33

There is no tenderness to compression above the ankle up to the knee, and there is no tenderness or swelling or ecchymosis noted at the ankle s/l "proper" or the associated medial or lateral ankle ligaments or s/l "malleoli" (yet we're only apparently referring to one ankle).

Pineapple
ankle proper sounds fine. Also, it would be malleoli SM
Tue Sep 23, 2003 09:02

because there is more than one - the tibial and the fibular - Here is definition from On-Line Med. Dict.
malleolus
Origin: L, dim. Of malleus hammer.

1. <anatomy> A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

k
Thank you! nm
Tue Sep 23, 2003 14:49

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k
Thank you! nm
Tue Sep 23, 2003 16:41

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