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Ankle fractures: Are we fixing too many? Kenneth J. Koval, MD Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center My opinion We are operating on too many ankle fractures Ankle fractures are associated with high regional variations in Rx Conditions with a high consensus on diagnosis and treatment have a low level of regional variation while more controversial procedures have much higher variations - Dartmouth Atlas Patterns of Variation in Surgical Treatment of Fractures (1996-97) Ratio of Rates of Ankle Fracture to the U.S. Average (1996-97) Proportion o