OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the relationship between clinical and US findings together with the prevalence and distribution of US findings indicative of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition within the foot in patients with gout. METHODS A total of 50 patients with gout attending the in-patient and the out-patient clinics of the Rheumatology Departments were prospectively en...

The os intermetatarseum is a relatively common accessory bone of the human foot located at the tarsometatarsal border between the first and second metatarsals. It can occur as an independent ossicle or as an osseous spur projecting from the proximal ends of the first two metatarsals, or the distal end of the first cuneiform. To determine the frequency of this congenital defect in native North A...

Classification, which could be defined as “a mental operation that causes an object or a multitude of objects to fall under a concept X” (Seiler, 1986), is linguistically expressed in many languages of the world, from Mandarin, Japanese or Burmese to languages of the Bantu or Amerindian families. It also appears in writing systems, for example in the ancient cuneiform, Mayan or hieroglyphic scr...

In 1999, twenty years before this publication, a bulla in perfect state of preservation was found Byzantine-period pit at Tel Qedesh. The fact that it almost completely intact all its parts, combination with the relatively recent publication cuneiform documents from private collections, has permitted Authors to attribute original stamp seal Persian period, reconstruct possible sealing’s use con...

Abstract A wide number of factors can affect the structure bones in foot. In bioarchaeology, few studies about foot anomalies include population comparisons and changes across time. We aimed to identify normal pathological variability that affected recent history West Mediterranean populations. Thus, we analyzed change occurrence rare variants, lesions, entheseal morphology, their probable caus...

Cuneiform is an ancient form of writing in which wooden reeds were used to impress shapes upon moist clay tablets. Upon drying, the tablets preserved the written script with remarkable accuracy and durability. There are currently hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets spread throughout the world in both museums and private collections. The global scale of these artifacts presents several pr...

BACKGROUND The Ponseti method has radically reduced the need for extensive surgical treatment in idiopathic clubfoot. At present there are no universally accepted criteria for the use of the various surgical techniques. MATERIAL AND METHODS 77 patients with idiopathic congenital clubfoot (111 affected feet) were treated according to Imhäuser. The operative release included z-shaped Achilles t...

Across many fields of science, primary data sets like sensor read-outs, time series, and genomic sequences are analyzed by complex chains of specialized tools and scripts exchanging intermediate results in domain-specific file formats. Scientific workflow management systems (SWfMSs) support the development and execution of these tool chains by providing workflow specification languages, graphic...

[Purpose] To report an adolescent male basketball player with nonhealing stress fractures of the foot and discuss the probable factors. [Subject and Methods] A 13-year-old basketball player presented with right foot pain. He had been playing basketball for three years and practicing 5 days/week. He denied any increase in daily training intensity. Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed stress frac...

Posterior tibialis tendon (PTT) dysfunction (PTTD) is associated with adult acquired flatfoot deformity. PTTD is commonly treated with a flexor digitorum longus (FDL) tendon transfer (FDLTT) to the navicular (NAV), medial cuneiform (CUN), or distal residuum of the degraded PTT (rPTT). We assessed the kinetic and kinematic outcomes of these three attachment sites using cadaveric gait simulation....