title: Tibiofibular synostosis in a professional football player.
abstract: We present an unusual cause of anterior tibial pain in a 24-year-old professional international football player who was found to have a synostosis of the middle-third of the diaphysis of the tibia and fibula. This is a rarely described phenomenon. Conservative treatment is the recommended treatment of choice, but this failed in our patient. Resection produced resolution of symptoms; he remained symptom-free three years later.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fairclough
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005360:Fibula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D012916:Soccer; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013580:Synostosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013977:Tibia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery