Deap-seated infection and nonunion following internal fixation for Charcot foot deformity correction. A proportional meta-analysis of level 4 evidence.
Konstantinos TsikopoulosKonstantinos SidiropoulosGabriele MeroniSavvas ChristofilosKonstantinos KazamiasKirellos Said AbbasPeriklis PapaioannouDimitris MavridisVenu KavarthapuPanagiotis GivissisPublished in: Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (2024)
Meta-analysis showed that although the overall risk of infection development is less than 10%, just below one third of the infected cases undergo late amputation. Moreover, internal fixation reconstructions carry a nonunion risk of just above 10%.