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Bizarre accessory metatarsal located between the left fourth and fifth metatarsals: a case report
Masahiko Nozawa1, Keiji Matsuda, Sungon Kim
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Foot (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|March 24, 2010
Abstract:
We report a case of bizarre accessory metatarsal located between the left fourth and fifth metatarsals without a supernumerary digit in a 6-year-old girl. The accessory metatarsal was resected to alleviate foot pain on walking. This metatarsal dysplasia might have arisen from sequential failures of digital formation at an early stage of development.
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