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Complications in Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle

  • 1st Edition - February 25, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Amiethab Aiyer, Stephen R. Thompson, Ettore Vulcano, Jonathan Kaplan
  • Language: English

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 Sur… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Orthopaedic Surgeons trainee and practicing

Table of contents

Part 1: Forefoot
Section 1: Hallux Valgus

1 Osteotomy (Proximal/Distal)

2 Lapidus
Section 2: Hallux Rigidus

3 First MTP Joint Cheilectomy

4 Arthrodesis

5 Arthroplasty
Section 3: Lesser Toes

6 Complications in Hammertoe Correction

7 Plantar Plate Tear

8 Digital neuroma

Part 2: Midfoot
Section 1: Trauma/Sequelae

9 Lisfranc Injury

10 Midfoot Arthritis

11 Fifth Metatarsal Fractures

12 Charcot Neuroarthropathy

Part 3: Hindfoot
Section 1: Trauma

13 Calcaneal Fractures

14 Talus Fracture
Section 2: Deformity

15 Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity (PCFD)

16 Complications of Cavovarus Foot Surgery

17 Deformity After Hindfoot Fusion

Part 4: Ankle
Section 1: Trauma

18 Ankle Fracture (Including Acute Syndesmotic/ Deltoid Injuries)

19 Pilon Injuries
Section 2: Arthroplasty

20 Total Ankle Replacement (TAR) Infection

21 Total Ankle Arthroplasty Loosening

22 Arthrodesis After Failed Total Ankle Replacement
Section 3: Infection

23 Soft Tissue Infection, Foot and Ankle

24 Osteomyelitis
Section 4: Sports/Soft tissue

25 Management of Complications from Achilles Tendon Ruptures

26 Complications Associated with Peroneal Tendon Injuries

27 Talar and Tibial Osteochondral Defects

28 Deltoid Ligament Sprain/Rupture

29 Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 25, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

AA

Amiethab Aiyer

Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Foot and Ankle Service, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Johns Hopkins University/School of Medicine, USA

ST

Stephen R. Thompson

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Sports Medicine, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, University of Maine, Bangor, Maine, USA

EV

Ettore Vulcano

Affiliations and expertise
Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA

JK

Jonathan Kaplan

Affiliations and expertise
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedic Specialty Institute, Orange County, CA, USA