The traumatic dislocation of the lateral sesamoid of the flexor hallucis brevis tendon in a soccer player is reported. It was treated surgically by open reduction and ligamentoplasty of the ruptured intersesamoid ligament. Fourteen months after the injury, the patient is fully asymptomatic, and has returned to full activity.
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