The tragic news is conveyed to Achilles by Antilochus, 'Nestor's son, the messenger of woe', to quote from Alexander Pope's famous translation of The Iliad (1715-20), which was almost certainly Dawe's ...
In the largest study of 775 patients, the overall complication rate of surgically treated Achilles tendon ruptures ... often have a "mop-end" appearance (Figures 6A-6C), some surgeons will wait ...