Percutaneous and Minimally Invasive Foot Surgery

Cyrille Cazeau, M.D., M.Sc., qualified in orthopedic surgery at Paris University Hospitals in 1992. He continued his studies with a Master of Science in Biomechanics at the Arts-et-Metiers-Paritech engineering school. His interest in anthropo-paleontology and comparative zoology led him to specialization in foot surgery. His surgical training can be qualified as “classical”, inspired by the work of Weil in Chicago and Barouk in France. He was one of the first members of the French Group for Research on Minimally Invasive (MI) and Percutaneous Foot Surgery (GRECMIP), now MIFAS. Based on his work in this area, he integrated those new procedures while respecting the classical culture of foot surgery. He was the first to introduce and publish the concept of a reasonable combined MI and percutaneous surgery, included in the first edition of the French book Chirurgie mini-invasive et percutanée du pied, which he edited in 2009. After the success of this book the French publisher Sauramps Medical published a second augmented edition in 2015. As a book editor, he highlighted the prioritization of the principles a foot surgeon has to follow, i.e. complying with the mechanicals requirements described by Weil and Barouk on the forefoot load distribution, using the fundamentals of biomechanic to select immediately stable fixation and reducing approaches with new MI and percutaneous procedures.