Chronic nonhealing heel ulcerations have been established as an independent risk factor for major amputation, with poor rates of limb salvage success. Partial calcanectomy is a controversial limb salvage procedure reserved for patients with these heel ulcerations. We conducted a retrospective cohort study reviewing 39 limbs that underwent a partial calcanectomy from 2012 to 2018 to evaluate the proportion of patients healed, time to healing, ulcer recurrence, and postoperative functional level compared to the preoperative state.
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