Lectures of Distinction - Series 2 Lectures of Distinction - Series 2 The second season of BOFAS LoD is starting September 2021 01 September 2021 The second series of BOFAS Lectures of Distinction is starting September 2021. The first lecture is on Principles of Ankle Fractures and will be held on Monday the 6th of September. Click here for more details and to register. Read more
Annual Meeting 2021 - Recap Annual Meeting 2021 - Recap The 2021 Annual Meeting is over, but click here if you missed it! 12 March 2021 We hope you enjoyed the 2021 Virtual Annual meeting, but if you could not make it, it's available for members free of charge! Follow the link to view the programme and recordings. Read more
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2Oct2025 BOFAS Principles Course - Dubai 02/10/2025 - 04/10/2025 Read more The aim is to give Overseas Trainee Orthopaedic Surgeons a solid grounding in the principles and the decision making in Foot & Ankle Surgery. There is an emphasis on clinical examination of cases, small group discussions and learning surgical approaches in the cadaver lab. This is the first course BOFAS is running in UAE and the aim is to expand the Foot and Ankle education and training in the Middle East and Gulf area. Venue - Le Meridien, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Documents to download ACv3BOFAS-Principles-Course-Programme-DXB(.pdf, 2.13 MB) - 474 download(s) Read more
20Oct2025 BOFAS Principles Course Taunton 20/10/2025 - 21/10/2025 Read more These courses are aimed at Higher Surgical Trainees / ST3 onwards and are designed to teach the core of Foot and Ankle surgery in an informal and interactive environment. The emphasis is on clinical examination cases, discussion groups and typical day-to-day clinic scenarios. Although not an exam preparation course, content is taught to the standard expected in the FRCS(Tr & Orth) exam; that of a day-one non-specialist orthopaedic consultant. Applications will open on 1st September 2023. Venue - Taunton (TBC) Documents to download BOFAS-Course-Programme--Taunton-2025(.docx, 31.88 KB) - 740 download(s) Read more
Togay Koç / 05 June 2023 / Categories: Abstracts, 2023, Poster Tibialis posterior tendon entrapment in posterior malleolar and pilon injuries of the ankle: a retrospective analysis J. Aamir, A. Syziu, L. Andritsos, R. Caldwell, L. Mason Background: The Tibialis Posterior tendon (TPT) is the only tendon to come into contact with the distal tibia and is therefore at greatest risk of injury in fractures of the distal tibia. Although TPT injury has been reported rarely with injuries around the ankle they often have been missed and present late. Aim: Our aim was to analyse the rate to TPT entrapment in fractures involving the posterior tibia i.e. Pilon and posterior malleolar fractures (PMF). Methods: A retrospective analysis of Pilon and PMFs over a 10-year period was undertaken. Patients who had undergone surgical fixation of their PMF or Pilon fractures were identified from our prospectively collected database between 2012 and 2022. Any fracture which had undergone a preoperative CT was included. Analysis of their pre-operative CT imaging was utilised to identify TPT entrapment, where if ≤50% of the tendon cross section was present in the fracture site this was denoted as a minor entrapment and if >50% of the tendon was present in the fracture site was denoted as major. Results: A total of 207 patients were identified for further analysis, 158 had a Pilon injury and 56 who had a PMF. The incidence of TPT entrapment was 20.77% (n = 43) with 39 minor and 4 major entrapments. If the fracture entered the TPT sheath, there was a 43.30% (42/97) of entrapment as compared to 0.91% (1/110) in fractures not entering the sheath (p<.001). TPT was significantly more common in PMF as compared to Pilon fractures (p=.001). Conclusion: In our assessment, there was a significant risk of TPT entrapment when the CT images display the fracture line entering the tendon sheath. We recommend that surgeons consider pre-operative imaging in Pilon and PMFs and to actively look for TPT entrapment intraoperatively where entrapment does occur on CT. Print 368 Tags: AnkleFractureTrauma Documents to download Tibialis posterior tendon entrapment in posterior malleolar and pilon injuries of the ankle: a retrospective analysis(.pdf, 932.94 KB) - 773 download(s)