Review Question - QID 3821

A 47-year-old male presents to your office 4 weeks following a traumatic laceration to his anterior ankle. His wound was irrigated and closed in the ED. He complains that when he walks his foot slaps to the ground, which has significantly limited his activities since the injury. His foot is well perfused, has a palpable DP pulse, and sensation over the dorsum of the foot is intact. A representative MRI image is seen in Figure A. For this patient, surgery will most likely result in