This is a problem which occurs after an injury to the ankle. Most causes of OCD of the talus usually follow a twisting injury to the ankle and are actually fractures of the joint surface (talar dome).

Twelve patients with an osteochondral lesion of the talus were treated with excision of the lesions and local osteochondral autogenous grafting. The lesion was accessed through a replaceable bone ...

We reviewed retrospectively 11 patients who had been treated surgically by open autologous osteochondral grafting for symptomatic chondral or osteochondral defects of the dome of the talus between ...