Table 3: Complications.
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All patients (839 feet) |
Symptomatic/removal of hardware: |
96 feet (11.4%) |
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Nonunion: |
39 feet (4.6%) |
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Infection: |
28 feet (3.3%) |
- Superficial (no return to operating room): |
- 17 feet (2.0%) |
- Deep (return to operating room): |
- 11 feet (1.3%) |
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Sural neuropathy/injury |
14 feet (1.7%) |
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Complex regional pain syndrome: |
11 feet (1.3%) |
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Adjacent osteoarthritis: |
7 feet (0.8%) |
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Subfibular impingement: |
3 feet (0.4%) |
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Symptomatic deep vein thrombosis: |
2 feet (0.2%) |