The endocrine profile in the pathogenesis of deforming arthrosis of the ankle joint in the early period of follow-up
Deforming osteoarthritis of the ankle joint (DAGS) of all variants of osteoarthritis is 9-25 %, second only to the hip (30-40 %) and knee (33.3 %) (Kalashnikov, 2000; Zakrevskii L.K. et al., 1996; Creamer P. 1997, 1999; Pullig O. et al., 1999), with one of the most difficult and least unsolved medical and social problems, in most cases, developing as a consequence of undergoing a serious injury to one or more of its anatomical components - the outer and inner ankle, tibia, talus (Zakrevskii L.K., 1996; Zagorodniy N.V., 2005).