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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
procedure combines soft tissue release and removal of the medial eminence with resection of the proximal end of the proximal phalanx;
- complications include transfer metatarsalgia (helped with MP bar), recurrence (reduced w/ medullary pin and splinting), ...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Discussion: - self limiting avasulcar necrosis of the navicular; - usually unilateral and affects children, most often boys; - onset is at age 4 in boys and age 5 in girls; - navicular is...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Lapidus procedure is indicated for w/ severe hallux valgus deformity + a hypermobile 1st ray;
- procedure involves: arthrodesis of metatarsalcuneiform joint
- note that shortening of metatarsal will occur if large...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
disorder of unknown etiology characterised by local proliferation of abnormal fibrous tissue in the plantar fascia
- this tissue is locally aggressive and progressively replaces the normal plantar aponeurosis
- this leads to often painful thickened fascia with nodules from...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
refers to flexion posture of DIP;
- may occur as isolated disorder or along w/ hammer toe deformity;
- this deformity occurs most often in 2nd toe, which is frequently the longest & which is impinged in a tight fitting shoe, causing DIP flexion;
- mallet...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Modified McBride Procedure for Hallux Valgus
modified procedure includes release of adductor hallucis, transverse metatarsal ligament, and lateral capsule combined w/ excision of medial eminence and plication of the capsule medially;
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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
in the normal foot, metatarsal heads bear one half of a person's body wt, when the foot is plantigrade;
- the first metatarsal normally bears half the wt of the forefoot;
-...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
a condition in which the there is medial displacement of the metatarsals on the cuneiform;
- forefoot is adducted at the tarsal metarsal joint;
- usually seen in the first year;
- is bilateral in 50% of...

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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
this a distal "Step Cut" metatarsal osteotomy that displaces metatarsal head laterally in order to correct hallux valgus deformity and metatasus adductus;
- Mitchell procedure (Mitchell Osteotomy) is carried out more proximally than Chevron...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Morton's Neuroma: Interdigital Perineural Fibrosis
it is not a neuroma but a perineural fibrosis and it was not first accurately described by Morton but by Durlacher, a chiropodist in 1845; both Thomas G. Morton (1876) and Thomas K....

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
cavus deformity of the foot (elevated longitudinal arch) due to fixed plantar flexion of the forefoot;
- main type is the cavovarus and less frequent is the cavovarus;
- associated with spinal cerebellar degenerative dz;
- associated...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
one of several causes of heel pain;
- the pain is located somewhat more distally than in other causes of heel pain syndrome
- symptoms include gradual onset of pain at the origin of the plantar aponeurosis and 1 cm...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
polydactyly in the foot usually involes a single duplication (hexadactyly)
- associated anomalies:
- duplications occur bilaterally in about 40-50% of patients, but often the duplications are not symmetric;
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eMedicine Cara Novick 2005
Synonyms and related keywords: duplicate toe, extra toe, duplicate digit, extra digit, forefoot anomaly, syndactyly, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, trisomy 13, tibial hemimelia, trisomy 21
Polydactyly most commonly refers to the presence of 6 toes on one foot, but more toes are possible. Polydactyly may be associated with syndactyly....