Table 3: Complications.

 

All patients (839 feet)

Symptomatic/removal of hardware:

96 feet (11.4%)

 

 

Nonunion:

39 feet (4.6%)

 

 

Infection:

28 feet (3.3%)

-                      Superficial (no return to operating room):

-                      17 feet (2.0%)

-                      Deep (return to operating room):

-                      11 feet (1.3%)

 

 

 

 

Sural neuropathy/injury

14 feet (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

Complex regional pain syndrome:

11 feet (1.3%)

 

 

 

 

Adjacent osteoarthritis:

7 feet (0.8%)

 

 

Subfibular impingement:

3 feet (0.4%)

 

 

Symptomatic deep vein thrombosis:

2 feet (0.2%)