1. What is a complication of a Watermann osteotomy?
Sesamoid injury
2. Cause of a ball and socket joint?
Tarsal coalition
3. Another question on cause of ball and socket
4. Most stable fixation for lapidus?
Plantar plate
5. Approach for plantar plate repair?
Plantar
6. Lateral and posterior base wedge from calcaneus in subtalar joint arthrodesis causes what?
Decrease in calc inclination and heel eversion
7. Contraindication for arthroscopic ankle fusion? S/p pilon fx with residual varus deformity or
rheum or gout
8. Xray of 3yr old in brace s/p ponseti casting that doesn’t want to wear brace. What to do?
Achilles tenotomy
9. Where do you place the blade for a tenotomy incision? Medial, lateral or directly over tendon
10. Nerve to look out for in brostrom?superficial peroneal
11. What is true about Dwyer? Making the osteotomy with a more vertical axis corrects
transverse as well
12. Pic of pin tract infection for charcot repair? Abx w/pin care and close follow up
13. What to do for a post axial polydactyly? Racquet type incision for cosmetic effect
14. Why do you pre-drill for medial mal osteotomy for medial ocd repair? For easier placement
of medial mal repair
15. Chopart amputation what tendon do you place in the dorsal talar neck to prevent equinus
and stump ulceration? Anterior Tibial tendon
16. Xray of chopart with anchor in talar neck. What tendon is anchored in the dorsal talar neck?
Anterior Tibial
17. What abx to avoid with renal failure patients? Cipro
18. What procedure is known with floating toe, lack of propulsion and transfer metatarsalgia?
1st mpj arthroplasty
19. Xray of a patient with hallux limitus causing mpj ulceration, what do you not do? 1st mpj
arthrodesis
20. IM 14, -1 met protrusion, sub 2nd met callus, hypermobile procedure? Lapidus
21. What is incorrect about vertical talus? Calcaneus dorsiflexed
22. X Ray of osteosarcoma in tibia, what to do initially? *Needs chemo, curette and pack,
amputation is definitive treatment or excise lesion
23. When do xarelto pre-op? 24 hours
24. Which is a direct thrombin inhibitor? Dabigatran
25. Xray of short met complication? Second mer fx
26. Place the talus more anterior to the calcaneus in stj fusion, what happens?
27. What to do in the IM nail to prevent stress fracture? Increase length of nail, ream the size of
the nail
28. Agility total ankle replacement requires what? Tibiofibular arthrodesis
Sesamoid injury
2. Cause of a ball and socket joint?
Tarsal coalition
3. Another question on cause of ball and socket
4. Most stable fixation for lapidus?
Plantar plate
5. Approach for plantar plate repair?
Plantar
6. Lateral and posterior base wedge from calcaneus in subtalar joint arthrodesis causes what?
Decrease in calc inclination and heel eversion
7. Contraindication for arthroscopic ankle fusion? S/p pilon fx with residual varus deformity or
rheum or gout
8. Xray of 3yr old in brace s/p ponseti casting that doesn’t want to wear brace. What to do?
Achilles tenotomy
9. Where do you place the blade for a tenotomy incision? Medial, lateral or directly over tendon
10. Nerve to look out for in brostrom?superficial peroneal
11. What is true about Dwyer? Making the osteotomy with a more vertical axis corrects
transverse as well
12. Pic of pin tract infection for charcot repair? Abx w/pin care and close follow up
13. What to do for a post axial polydactyly? Racquet type incision for cosmetic effect
14. Why do you pre-drill for medial mal osteotomy for medial ocd repair? For easier placement
of medial mal repair
15. Chopart amputation what tendon do you place in the dorsal talar neck to prevent equinus
and stump ulceration? Anterior Tibial tendon
16. Xray of chopart with anchor in talar neck. What tendon is anchored in the dorsal talar neck?
Anterior Tibial
17. What abx to avoid with renal failure patients? Cipro
18. What procedure is known with floating toe, lack of propulsion and transfer metatarsalgia?
1st mpj arthroplasty
19. Xray of a patient with hallux limitus causing mpj ulceration, what do you not do? 1st mpj
arthrodesis
20. IM 14, -1 met protrusion, sub 2nd met callus, hypermobile procedure? Lapidus
21. What is incorrect about vertical talus? Calcaneus dorsiflexed
22. X Ray of osteosarcoma in tibia, what to do initially? *Needs chemo, curette and pack,
amputation is definitive treatment or excise lesion
23. When do xarelto pre-op? 24 hours
24. Which is a direct thrombin inhibitor? Dabigatran
25. Xray of short met complication? Second mer fx
26. Place the talus more anterior to the calcaneus in stj fusion, what happens?
27. What to do in the IM nail to prevent stress fracture? Increase length of nail, ream the size of
the nail
28. Agility total ankle replacement requires what? Tibiofibular arthrodesis
