Fracture of calcaneum following drop foot surgery – a case report
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Fracture of calcaneum following drop foot surgery--a case report.
The usual protocol for correction of drop foot in leprosy, a consequence of damage to the common peroneal nerve, is a tendon transfer, immobilisation to heal the tendon juncture and post-operative exercises to put the transfer into use. Tarsal disintegrations have been reported in literature in drop foot patients when the transferred tendons were inserted into the bone making a drill hole to en...
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عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2162-8807
DOI: 10.47276/lr.80.1.77