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Talus fractures are infrequent and challenging injuries with potentially devastating clinical consequences and high complication rates. They are generally associated with a high-energy mechanism because significant forces are needed to compromise their structure.

Although managment criteria depends on the location and the fracture subtype, most of them require active behavior in the emergency through closed manipulation and transitory stabilization to protect soft tissues and preserve body’s vascularization and careful definitive surgical handling by means of open reduction and stable internal fixation. The most frequently reported complication is subtalar arthritis, whose incidence varies widely.

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  1. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Nuevo Hospital San Roque, Ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina

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    Florencio Pablo Segura

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    Guillermo Arrondo

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Segura, F.P., Arrondo, G. (2022). Talus Fracture. In: Wagner Hitschfeld, E., Wagner Hitschfeld, P. (eds) Foot and Ankle Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95738-4_55

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