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Complications are an inevitable occurrence in the performance of foot and ankle surgery. With reference to surgery, a variety of definitions have been offered to define the term “complication.”
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Jacobs, A.M. (2017). “Anatomy” of Complications. In: Lee, M., Grossman, J. (eds) Complications in Foot and Ankle Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53686-6_1
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