[Surgical treatment of intra-articular calcaneus fractures]. / Zur operativen Behandlung von intraartikulären Kalkaneusfrakturen.

The instable fractures of os calcis are usually treated by conservative methods with early functional mobilization. In a few cases we think that in the Tongue Type and especially in the Joint Depression Type of Essex-Lopresti a surgical treatment may be useful to reestablish the congruence and the geometry of the joint surface.