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Morphofunctional study of brachymetatarsia of the fourth metatarsal
Pedro V Munuera Martínez1, Guillermo Lafuente Sotillos, Gabriel Domínguez Maldonado
1Department of Podiatry, Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
|July 22, 2004
Abstract:
Brachymetatarsia is abnormal anatomical shortness of the metatarsals. We describe a new diagnostic test that enables quantification of the shortening of the fourth metatarsal in brachymetatarsia. The metatarsodigital alterations most frequently related to this deformity are presented.
