A rare complication of total knee arthroplasty: Type l complex regional pain syndrome of the foot and ankle

Abstract

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a painful and disabling disorder that usually affects the extremities. This complication may affect the knee joint after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We report aunique case of CRPS of the foot and ankle, which was an unusual involvement site for CRPS after TKA.© 2016 Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Turkish Association of Orthopaedics andTraumatology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).