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Posterior ankle impingement syndrome represents an important cause of chronic ankle pain and has been extensively described in the orthopaedic and radiology literature. A rare case of this painful hindfoot disorder that resulted from two concurrent developmental anomalies is presented herein.
Department of Radiology, University of Crete, Stavrakia, 711 10, Heraklion Crete, Greece
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