We audited forty-six patients with a rupture of the Achilles tendon notified to the Swedish regulatory authority (the Health and Social Care Inspectorate) due to suspicion of malpractice. The patients' history and clinical presentation differed from those with a more classical acute rupture. The diagnostic errors were often found in patients older than 60 years, they were just as common in women as in men and the symptoms often had a subacute start. In most patients, the diagnostic errors were due to an incomplete clinical examination. More than one fourth of the patients were on medication with statins or quinolones.
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