Bone healing after adjacent metatarsal osteotomies

In this study, the authors reviewed the postoperative progress of 32 patients with simultaneous adjacent metatarsal osteotomies to determine the effect of surgical location on postoperative healing. Results of their study supported their suspicions that more bone callus was formed and edema was more prolonged when osteotomies of the same type were performed on adjacent metatarsal bases than when they were alternated (i.e., one at the surgical neck and the other at the adjacent metaphyseal base).