Functional results and quality of life after joint preserving or sacrificing surgery in Charcot-Marie-Tooth foot deformities.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to assess the functional results, quality of life, and complications in two groups of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) patients according to the type of surgical operations, joint preserving, or joint sacrificing surgery.

Methods: Fifty-two feet in forty-six patients with CMT who had undergone surgical deformity correction were divided into two groups based on the main surgical procedure for the correction: Class I (joint preserving surgery) and class II (joint sacrificing surgery). Foot ankle disability index (FADI) and short form 12 version 2 (SFV were documented pre-operative and 12 months post-operative.

Minimally invasive technique for stage III adult-acquired flatfoot deformity: a mid- to long-term retrospective study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to present the functional, radiological, and quality of life outcomes of a series of stage III adult-acquired flatfoot deformity corrections using an original operative approach based on minimal incision surgery (MIS).

Methods: Sixty-two patients (67 feet) with a symptomatic stage III flatfoot deformity were treated using a modified double arthrodesis by MIS. The mean age was 63 years (range, 50 to 81) and the mean follow-up was 6.

Ruptured Baker's cyst: complications due to misdiagnosis.

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and ruptured Baker's cyst have similar clinical presentations: inflammation and acute pain in the calf. Differential diagnosis is necessary and requires information from Doppler ultrasound imaging because treating suspected DVT with therapeutic doses of low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) can cause major bleeding and worsen the prognosis of complicated Baker's cyst. We present a series of 7 consecutive cases in which the patients were misdiagnosed with DVT without imaging.

[Complication analysis in Lisfranc fracture-dislocation].

Objective: To value the complications and sequels for patients with Lisfrancs fracture-luxation (FLL).

Material And Methods: A transverse ambispective study of cohorts was realized of 83 patients by diagnosis of Lisfrancs fracture-luxation. There was in use a protocol of withdrawal of information with variables related to the injury, clinical, therapeutic parameters, complications and scales of clinical valuation.

Isolated talonavicular joint arthrodesis through minimal incision surgery.

Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze bony fusion and functional outcomes after talonavicular arthrodesis (TNA) using an original minimally invasive surgery (MIS).

Methods: There was a total of 11 feet in 11 patients who underwent TNA and were followed up for 47 months (range 40.8-53.