Repke Osteotomy

Roepke osteotomy is one of the methods of surgical bone grafting for foot deformities of various origins (true, false, acquired, congenital) to unload and fix the posterior part of the neck of the talus. **Story**

Ropke osteotomy was first used by Blum and Rudolf (1923). The bone received its name in honor of its author, the German plastic surgeon K. Ropke (“Ropke’s foot”). K. Ropke proposed combining anterior bone grafting and his posterior one. Anterior corrective osteotomies of the leg and foot create an anatomically and functionally optimal shape of the bones, and the operation performed in the ankle area allows modeling its axis.

**Operation technique:** Oblique osteotomy of the calcaneus is performed either using an electric knife and forceps with a cutting edge, or using a medical chisel connected to a forehead loupe. Then a central periosteal osteotomy of the distal metaphysis of the tibia is performed. Subsequently, an autogenous tibia graft is installed (