Complications in Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle

The difference between an average surgeon and a master surgeon is often an ability to navigate and resolve surgical complications. Complications in Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle Surgery provides expert guidance and offers real solutions to improve patient outcomes, for both the trainee and the experienced surgeon. This brand-new volume in the Complications in Orthopaedics series from series editor Dr. Stephen R. Thompson, along with expert surgeons Drs. Amiethab Aiyer, Ettore Vulcano, and Jonathan Kaplan, focuses on how to recognize and avoid errors during foot and ankle surgery, with thorough coverage of preoperative errors, intraoperative issues, and postoperative complications.

• Helps you navigate a wide variety of inevitable difficult situations in foot and ankle surgery, whether errors in judgment, technical mistakes, or unavoidable outcomes
• Covers key topics such as patient safety, informed decision making, improved postoperative care, quality improvement, multidisciplinary collaboration, and more
• Features a full-color design with numerous photographs, radiographs, and illustrations
• Includes video clips to enhance and reinforce the material
• Follows a templated, reader-friendly format throughout
• Includes introductory material on relevant anatomy and necessary background information
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

List of contents

Forefoot
Hallux Valgus
1. Osteotomy (distal/proximal)
2. LapidusHallux

Rigidus
3. Cheilectomy
4. Arthrodesis
5. Arthroplasty

Lesser Toes
6. Hammertoe
7. Plantar plate tear
8. Digital neuroma

Midfoot
Trauma/Sequelae
9. Lisfranc injury
10. Midfoot arthritis
11. Fifth metatarsal fractures
12. Charcot neuroarthropathy

Hindfoot
Trauma
13. Calcaneal fracture
14. Talus fracture

Deformity
15. Flatfoot Deformity (PCFD)
16. Cavovarus
17. Deformity after hindfoot fusion

Ankle
Trauma
18. Ankle fracture (including acute syndesmotic/deltoid injuries)
19. Pilon injuries

Arthroplasty
20. TAR Infection
21. TAR loosening
22. Arthrodesis after failed TAR

Infection
23. Soft tissues infection, foot & ankle
24. Osteomyelitis

Sports/Soft Tissue
25. Achilles Rupture
26. Peroneal tendinopathy/tears
27. Talar/tibial osteochondral defect
28. Deltoid ligament sprain/rupture
29. Chronic lateral ankle instability

About the author

Stephen R. Thompson, MD, MEd, FRCSC is a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon at Northern Light Orthopedics. He completed his medical school at the University of Sydney, Residency at University of Maryland and Fellowship at the Fowler-Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, Ontario and then his second at the Oakville Sports Injury Clinic in Oakville, Ontario.

Dr. Thompson is a recognized expert in sports medicine. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the widely used and highly respected reference textbook DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Thompson has spent a significant time studying medical education and standardized testing. He has applied this knowledge in his role as the Editor-in-Chief of Miller's Review of Orthopaedics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Amiethab Aiyer (Editor), Kaplan Jonathan (Editor), Stephen Thompson (Editor), Ettore Vulcano (Editor), Thompson Stephen R. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.03.2026
• EAN: 9780443120398
• ISBN: 978-0-443-12039-8
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: Complications in Orthopaedics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Orthopedics, MEDICAL / Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Orthopaedics & fractures, Surgical orthopaedics and fractures, MEDICAL / Surgery / Orthopedic