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This chapter presents the most frequent approaches in foot and ankle surgery based on a summarized session of surface anatomy with landmarks: anteroposterior view, posteroanterior view, lateral view, medial view; it is followed by an illustrated step-by-step description of ten extended incisions: anterolateral suprafibular approach, medial ankle approach, anterior ankle approach, posterolateral ankle approach, posteromedial ankle approach, midfoot approaches – dorsomedial approach, dorsal intermediate approach, dorsolateral approach, first metatarsophalangeal joint approach, dorsal intermetatarsal space approach, which include 15 different approaches.
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Godoy-Santos, A.L., Rammelt, S., Zoboli, A.C. (2016). Clinical Anatomy. In: Valderrabano, V., Easley, M. (eds) Foot and Ankle Sports Orthopaedics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15735-1_1
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