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. 2018 Dec 31;18(75):316–324. doi: 10.15557/JoU.2018.0046

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Fig. 6. — A 19-year-old male patient presented with a history of injury with glass in the lower leg posteriorly 3 days back. US image showing thickened, hypoechoic and retracted Achilles tendon (elbow arrow in A). Anechoic fluid is seen in gap (asterisk in A); suggestive of type 2 tear. Another 28-year-old male patient presented with a history of injury with some sharp object in the lower leg posteriorly 7 days back. US image showing thickened, hypoechoic and retracted Achilles tendon with echogenic Kager’s fat pad seen herniating into the gap (arrow in B, C); suggestive of type 3 tear