Introduction:

The lesion of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis is commonly accompanied by the fracture of the maleollus either medial or lateral, rarely, the syndesmosis can be injured without there being a fracture of any of the bone structures that make up the ankle, accounting for about 1% of all injuries. Being very rare, they are not diagnosed at the acute event, and are usually treated as a simple sprained ankle.

Material and methods:

Series of cases with ankle fractureless syndesmosis lesion, treated with situational double screw placement, deferred support and implant removal at two months. After six months of initial surgery, the Cumberland ankle instability (CAIT) test is applied which measures the degree of ankle instability.

Results:

For one year, 4 cases of fractureless synosmosis lesions were found out of a total of 349 surgical cases treated in the hospital, exclusively in male patients, all under the age of 40. Six months after surgery, CAIT was applied, encountering residual instability in 100% of treated cases.

Discussion:

This result is unencouraging and makes us reconsider the treatment established to improve the final stability of the ankle.