Herein, we describe a 46-year-old woman with persistent pain and weakness in her left ankle/foot one year after surgical repair of all three ankle extensor tendons following a penetrating injury. This report presents a unique case whereby US imaging played a paramount role in the diagnosis and surgical management of a previous nonanatomic repair of the ankle extensor tendons after a penetrating injury one year prior. The above-quoted findings were subsequently corrected with end-to-end sutures. On the third postoperative month follow-up, the patient was free of any complaints or complications.

Department of General Surgery and Traumatology Municipal Hospital 412 01 Litoměřice Czech Republic

Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Hacettepe University Medical School Ankara 06100 Turkey

Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University and University Hospital Motol 150 06 Prague Czech Republic

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital 128 00 Prague Czech Republic

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