Ail old woman, 01 aDuut uu, came under my treatment for a bad foot. One day her right foot being trodden on by a cow, the skin and subcutaneous structures of the dorsum (foot) were bruised and partly lacerated. There was no fracture of any of the metatarsal bones. Her foot became swollen and painful, and rapidly ran on to sloughing. About three or four days after she noticed a pretty big slough...

Foot length discrepancy may result from congenital or acquired causes. If the absence of the foot is more proximal than the metatarsal level, push off and foot resilience will be disturbed and rapid walking and spring will be awkward. Those patients have to be fitted with a prosthesis extending above the ankle to the distal leg. The functional impairment and poor cosmetic appearance become soci...

This report describes a case of polydactyly in the hind-limb of a West African Dwarf goat kid in South West Africa. Physical examination revealed the presence of four digits in each of the hind limbs. Radiological examination and macerated bones of the animal showed a bifid shape of each metatarsal that was more prominent from the distal half of the diaphysis. This resulted in the presence of f...

The sesamoid bone ligament complex of foot contains two sesamoid bones one medial tibial sesamoid and other lateral fibular sesamoid bone, both embedded in the plantar ligament beneath first metatarsal head. The incidence of medial tibial sesamoid bone fracture is rare. Clinically they are often misdiagnosed as soft tissue injuries and often missed. We present a case of fracture medial tibial s...

A total of 142 metatarsal bones of unknown age and sex were examined for the length of the bone and number & position of the nutrient foramen. Study also included the direction of nutrient foramina and it’s distances from both the ends . It was observed that almost all the Metatarsals had one nutrient foramen in the middle third of their shaft In 5 th Metatarsals majority of foramina were situa...

Rats (Ar/IRE Wistar strain) exposed for 12 months to vapors of vinyl chloride developed tumors of the skin, lungs, and bones. The cutaneous tumors, which always appeared in the area in which submaxillary and parotid glands are located, have been histologically recognized as epidermoid carcinomas, papillomas, and mucoepidermoid carcinomas. The morphological characteristics of lung tumors, which ...

Chondromyxoid fibroma is an uncommon benign cartilaginous tumor accounting for less than 1% of all bone tumors. The classic site of involvement is the metaphyseal region of long tubular bones, usually presenting in the second to third decades of life with nonspecific pain and swelling of the affected part. This case is an interesting incidental finding in a juvenile hallux abductovalgus deformi...

How bones respond dynamically to mechanical loading through changes in shape and structure is poorly understood, particularly with respect to variations between bones. Structurally, cortical bones adapt in vivo to their mechanical environments primarily by modulating two processes, modeling and Haversian remodeling. Modeling, defined here as the addition of new bone, may occur in response to me...

There is not any method to measure metatarsal protrusion in the whole metatarsal. The aim of this research is to know the normal metatarsal parabola in male and female feet. The system of measurement devised by Hardy and Clapham to evaluate the protrusion between metatarsals I and II was adapted to study the whole metatarsal parabola and applied to the five metatarsals of 169 normal feet, 72 fe...

ObjectivesWe hypothesize that three-dimensional (3D) geometric analyses in weight bearing CT-images of the foot and ankle are more reproducible compared to two-dimensional (2D) analyses. Therefore, we 2D 3D on bones weight-bearing non cone-beam CT images healthy volunteers.MethodsTwenty volunteers (10 male, 10 female, mean age 37.5 years) underwent imaging both feet. Clinically relevant height ...