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Figure 19. Hawkins sign in a 27-year-old man who had undergone open reduction internal fixation for injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Radiograph (mortice view) shows a thin subchondral area of radiolucency involving the entire talar dome and lateral talar gutter (arrowheads), a finding that signifies talar viability and excludes future development of AVN.