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X-ray of calcaneal fractures

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[[File:Bohler's angle (raster).jpg|thumb|Bohler's angle<ref name=Miller2015>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cctQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA562 Page 562] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105193553/https://books.google.com/books?id=cctQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA562 |date=2017-11-05 }} in: {{cite book|title=Miller's Review of Orthopaedics|author=Mark D. Miller|author2=Stephen R. Thompson|edition=7th|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|year=2015|isbn=9780323390422}}</ref>]]
[[File:Gissane.jpg|thumb|Gissane's angle]]
On lateral radiographs, two angles are helpful in indicating a calcaneal fracture even when the fracture is not clearly visible:
*'''Bohler's angle''', or the "Tuber Angle" is formed by the intersection of
:*A line from the highest point of the posterior articular facet to the highest point of the posterior tuberosity.
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