title: Review of the operative treatment of Achilles tendon rupture.
abstract: Sixty-eight patients' charts were reviewed for ascertainment of the complication rate following operative repair of ruptured Achilles tendons. Ninety-two percent of 48 patients whose cases underwent clinical evaluation returned to their preinjury activity status: 13% had incisional complications, most of which resolved. The rerupture rate was 3% (2/68). The results of this series and a literature review show that operative treatment can be regarded as an acceptable method. Nonoperative treatment should be considered in a nonathletic patient over the age of 50 years because of potentially serious problems with wound healing.
mesh_terms: D000125:Achilles Tendon / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012421:Rupture