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Spontaneous Achilles tendon rupture in alkaptonuria

Omar A. Alajoulin, Mohammed S. Alsbou, Somayya O. Ja’afreh and Heba M. Kalbouneh
Saudi Medical Journal December 2015, 36 (12) 1486-1489; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12834
Omar A. Alajoulin
From the Foot and Ankle Section (Alajoulin), Trauma Reconstruction Surgery, King Hussein Medical Center, the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Kalbouneh), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, the Department of Pharmacology (Alsbou), Alkaptonuria Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, and the Department of Radiology (Ja’afreh), Prince Ali Hospital, Al-Karak, Jordan
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Mohammed S. Alsbou
From the Foot and Ankle Section (Alajoulin), Trauma Reconstruction Surgery, King Hussein Medical Center, the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Kalbouneh), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, the Department of Pharmacology (Alsbou), Alkaptonuria Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, and the Department of Radiology (Ja’afreh), Prince Ali Hospital, Al-Karak, Jordan
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Somayya O. Ja’afreh
From the Foot and Ankle Section (Alajoulin), Trauma Reconstruction Surgery, King Hussein Medical Center, the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Kalbouneh), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, the Department of Pharmacology (Alsbou), Alkaptonuria Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, and the Department of Radiology (Ja’afreh), Prince Ali Hospital, Al-Karak, Jordan
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vol. 36 no. 12 1486-1489
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12834
PubMed 
26620992

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 13, 2015
  • Accepted August 10, 2015
  • Published online December 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Omar A. Alajoulin, MD,
  2. Mohammed S. Alsbou, MD, PhD,
  3. Somayya O. Ja’afreh, MD and
  4. Heba M. Kalbouneh, BDS, PhD⇑
  1. From the Foot and Ankle Section (Alajoulin), Trauma Reconstruction Surgery, King Hussein Medical Center, the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Kalbouneh), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, the Department of Pharmacology (Alsbou), Alkaptonuria Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, and the Department of Radiology (Ja’afreh), Prince Ali Hospital, Al-Karak, Jordan
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Heba Kalbouneh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. E-mail: heba.kalbouneh{at}ju.edu.jo
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