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True or False: Ankle fractures occurs when foot is forcibly everted and often pulls off the medial malleolus?

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True; called “Pott’s Fracture”

*If tibia moves anteriorly, the posterior margin of the tibia is also sheared off by talus = trimalleolar fracture

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