Curbside Consultation of the Foot and Ankle : 49 Clinical Questions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributing Authors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Section I: Forefoot/Midfoot -- Question 1: How Do You Evaluate and Treat an 18-Year-Old Female With Plantar Hallux Metatarsophalangeal Pain and a Radiolucent Line on Her Sesamoid? -- Question 2: My Mother-in-Law is Developing Progressive Pain in the Ball of Her Foot and Clawing of Her Lesser Toes What Do I Do? -- Question 3: My Patient Has Failed Conservative Treatment of a Morton's Neuroma Do I Perform a Plantar or Dorsal Surgical Approach? -- Question 4: A 43-Year-Old Recreational Marathon Runner is Having Pain Over Her Bunion Will This Eventually Need Surgery? -- Question 5: How Would You Treat My 74-Year-Old Community Ambulator With a Severe Bunion Who Cannot Find Shoes for the Michigan Winters? -- Question 6: How Do You Treat an Ingrown Toenail? Should I Prescribe the Oral Antifungal Medication for Onychomycosis? -- Question 7: How Do You Manage Hallux Rigidus? Which Patients With Hallux Rigidus Should Receive a Cheilectomy, Arthrodesis, or Arthroplasty? -- Question 8: How Do I Perform a Midfoot Fusion? -- Section II: Hindfoot -- Question 9: How Do You Treat Plantar Fasciitis? How Do I Know if It is the First Branch of the Lateral Plantar Nerve (Baxter's Nerve)? -- Question 10: Do All Patients With Pes Planus Require Treatment? -- Question 11: What is Your Surgical Approach to Chronic Posterior Tibial Tendon Insufficiency? -- Question 12: Which Patients With Cavovarus Feet Need Treatment? -- Question 13: I Am Performing a Triple Arthrodesis But Cannot Seem to Reduce the Talonavicular Joint What Am I Doing Wrong? -- Question 14: How Much Fixation is Required for a Subtalar Fusion? What is Your Postoperative Protocol? -- Section III: Ankle.

Question 15: How Do I Treat a Patient With Recurrent Medial Ankle Pain and a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finding of Medial Malleolar Edema Consistent With a Medial Malleolar Stress Fracture? -- Question 16: Which Osteochondral Talar Lesions Need Surgery? -- Question 17: When Do You Perform an Allograft or Autograft Talar Transplantation Graft for a Failed Osteochondral Talar Lesion? -- Question 18: How Do You Treat Chronic Achilles Tendinosis? When Do You Operate? -- Question 19: How Do I Know if I Should Transfer the Flexor Hallucis Longus or Do a Turn-Down or V-Y Lengthening for My Achilles Tendon Gap? -- Question 20: How Do You Treat a Haglund's Deformity That Does Not Have Any Changes Involving the Achilles Tendon? -- Question 21: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shows a Peroneus Tendon Tear Should I Operate? -- Question 22: How Do You Manage Ankle Arthritis With Minimal Arthritic Changes on Radiographs? -- Question 23: Will an Ankle Arthroscopy and Removal of Bone Spurs Help Me? -- Question 24: I Have a 63-Year-Old Patient Who Had an Ankle Fracture 20 Years Ago and is Ready for a Major Procedure Now Should I Perform an Ankle Arthrodesis or Should I Refer Her to Someone for a Total Ankle Arthroplasty? What Are Your Criteria for a Total Ankle Arthroplasty? -- Section IV: Sports -- Question 25: An 18-Year-Old Male Soccer Player Has Dislocating Peroneal Tendons How Would You Treat This? -- Question 26: How Would You Treat a 22-Year-Old Professional Ballet Dancer With an Os Trigonum and Fluid Around Her Flexor Hallucis Longus Tendon Sheath Seen on Magnetic Resonance Imaging? -- Question 27: How Would You Treat a 32-Year-Old Triathelete With a Nondisplaced Navicular Stress Fracture?.

Question 28: My 25-Year-Old Patient in Whom I Have Previously Placed a Jones Screw for a Fifth Metatarsal Stress Fracture Now Has New Pain With a Positive Triple Phase Bone Scan Now How Do I Treat This Patient? -- Question 29: How Do You Treat a 21-Year-Old Basketball Player Who Has Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence of Tibial Diaphyseal Edema Not Resolved After 3 Months of Protected Weight Bearing? -- Question 30: How Do You Treat "Shin Splints" in the High-Level Athlete Who Needs to Continue to Compete? -- Question 31: What is Your Technique for an Achilles Tendon Repair? What is Your Cut-Off for a Primary Repair and How Do You Treat Them if Greater Than That? -- Question 32: How Do You Treat an Athlete With Chronic Lateral Foot Overload and Peroneal Tendonitis With a Cavovarus Foot? -- Question 33: How Do You Manage a Significant Turf Toe Injury? -- Question 34: How Long Do High Ankle Sprains Really Take to Get Better? How Do You Evaluate Them Appropriately? -- Question 35: How Do You Treat Chronic Ankle Instability in Your Recreational Athletes? -- Section V: Trauma -- Question 36: How Do You Treat Proximal Fifth Metatarsal Fractures? -- Question 37: How Do You Manage a 22-Year-Old College Lineman With a Minimally Displaced or Ligamentous Lisfranc Injury? -- Question 38: Which Lateral Talar Process Fractures Should I Fix? -- Question 39: Which Calcaneus Fractures Should I Operate On? -- Question 40: How Should I Fix My Patient With Multiple Metatarsal Fractures? -- Question 41: What is Your Decision-Making Process for Pilon Fractures? -- Question 42: Do I Rod or Plate My Distal Third Tibia Fractures? Should I Fix the Fibula, Too? -- Question 43: How Do You Fix Your Syndesmotic Injuries? Can I Use a TightRope Now? -- Section VI: Miscellaneous.

Question 44: How Do You Treat Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome? What Are Your Indications for Surgical Decompression? -- Question 45: How Do You Evaluate and Treat Exertional Compartment Syndrome of the Leg? -- Question 46: Does Compartment Syndrome of the Foot Really Exist? How Should I Treat It? -- Question 47: What Are Some Techniques You Use in Treating Foot and Ankle Injuries in Your Patients With Osteoporosis? -- Question 48: What Are Some Techniques Used in Treating Foot and Ankle Injuries in Patients With Diabetes? -- Question 49: Do I Need to Use Bone Graft for Foot or Ankle Surgery? Which Graft Should I Use-Autologous or Allograft? -- Financial Disclosures -- Index.

Curbside Consultation of the Foot and Ankle: 49 Clinical Questions provides quick answers to the tricky questions most commonly posed during a "curbside consultation" between orthopedic surgeons.

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