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Tarsal Tunnel Surgery

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Tarsal tunnel syndrome is an entrapment neuropathy beneath the flexor retinaculum or distal anatomic tunnels resulting in pressure on the posterior tibial nerve and its branches. Surgical treatment is warranted following failure of conservative treatment and includes decompression of the posterior tibial nerve and its terminal branches. The focus of the following chapter is failure of tarsal tunnel decompression to relieve patient symptoms. The authors present an algorithm outlining possible causes of failure based on the amount of relief achieved immediately after decompression. Treatment options are listed for each cause of failure. Other complications are also outlined including wound dehiscence and infection, hematoma, seroma, injury to tibial nerve or artery, neuroma of the posterior branch of saphenous nerve or the calcaneal nerve, and tibialis posterior subluxation. A complete review of pertinent literature to each complication is summarized.

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    Guido LaPorta

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    Ellianne M. Nasser

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LaPorta, G., Nasser, E.M. (2017). Tarsal Tunnel Surgery. In: Lee, M., Grossman, J. (eds) Complications in Foot and Ankle Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53686-6_20

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