The incision strategy for minimizing sural nerve injury in medial displacement calcaneal osteotomy: a cadaveric study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The skin incision for medial displacement calcaneal osteotomy (MDCO) often damages the sural nerve. We aimed to identify the practical reference area in which the surgeon can incise the skin to minimize the injury of the sural nerve during MDCO. METHODS:The foot and ankles of 20 cadavers were dissected. The landmarks were the following four anatomical references: point A, the tip of the lateral malleolus; point B, the inferior margin of the calcaneus on the vertical line through point A; point C, the posteroinferior apex of the calcaneus; and point D, the lateral border of the Achilles tendon on the horizontal line through point A. The distances from the sural nerve to points A and B in the vertical direction (lines D1 and D2, respectively), to points A and C in the diagonal dir

SUBMITTER: Park JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852710 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature