title: [Treatment of Achilles tendon injuries in athletes].
abstract: 165 athletes with injuries to the Achilles tendon were under observation of the authors; 4 of them had sustained open traumas and 161 -- subcutanous ones. Surgical intervention was the main method of treatment. The G. D. Nikitin's method of autoplasty is indicated in fresh injuries, a combined autoalloplasty, according to the authors' method, -- in old ones. Late results were followed up in 141 patients, all of them showed good outcome. Primary surgical treatment of the wound and suture of the Achilles tendon are indicated in open injuries to the Achilles tendon.
mesh_terms: D000125:Achilles Tendon / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012421:Rupture; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
vernacular_title: Lechenie povrezhdeniĭ akhillova sukhozhiliia u sportsmenov.