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Fig. 6

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

Fig. 6

The incision area for minimizing sural nerve injury in MDCO. The yellow dotted line represents the baseline of distance from the lateral malleolar tip to the sural nerve. The red hatched area represents a practical zone for clinical applications, including more than one half of the horizontal distance between points A and B, more than one half of the vertical distance between point A and D, and more than one third of the diagonal distance between point A and C

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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

ISSN: 1749-799X