This issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics, guest-edited by Drs. Jorge Filippi and German Joannas, will discuss Controversies in Acute Trauma and Reconstruction. This issue is one of four selected each year by long-time series Consulting Editor, Dr. Mark Myerson.

Topics in this issue will include:
Induced Membrane technique (Masquelet) for Bone Defects in the Distal Tibia;
New principles in pilon fracture management;
High energy pilon fractures;
Strategies to avoid syndesmosis malreduction in ankle fractures;
Complex Ankle Fractures;
Acute deltoid ligament repair in ankle fractures;

Chronic syndesmotic injuries:
arthrodesis vs reconstruction;
Talar neck fractures;
Sinus tarsi approach for calcaneal fractures;
Fixation by ORIF or primary arthrodesis of calcaneus fractures;
How to identify unstable Lisfranc injuries;
Subtle Lisfranc injuries;
Primary arthrodesis for high energy Lisfranc injuries;
and Jones fracture in the non-athletic population.