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## Introduction: The high prevalence of forefoot pathology generates long surgical waiting lists (SWL). We have detected a considerable number of patients who withdraw surgery, which creates an important distortion in our activity and high expenditure of resources. Our objective is to study the factors related to these resignations, as well as, compare them with other pathologies of high prevalence and ambulatory surgical treatment: carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and internal meniscopathy (IM). Material and methods: Retrospective study of the surgical cancellations on 2399 patients included in the SWL of the Foot and Ankle Unit of our centre for forefoot surgery, between January/2014 and March/2018, both included. Results: We have found 389 renunciations, which represent 16.22% of the inclusions in SWL, with 84.83% of women. The pathologies with the highest rate of resignation have been Morton metatarsalgia (24%) and hallux rigidus (20.16%). The most frequent pathology, hallux valgus, records 15.96% of resignations that occur mostly between 6 and 9 months. In the CTS and IM, the resignation rate has been 17.42 and 8.92%, respectively, with higher resignation rates in the first 3 mont

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Author

S. Llanos; M. Galán-Olleros; E. Manrique; R. Celada; J.E. Galeote; F. Marco

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)