Painful os intermetatarseum in athletes: Report of four cases and review of the literature

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-264

  Nakasa, Tomoyuki ^a   Fukuhara, Kohei ^b   Adachi, Nobuo ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fukuhara Orthopaedic Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory bone; Anterior tarsal tunnel syndrome; Athlete; Deep peroneal nerve; Os intermetatarseum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOOT PAIN; HUMAN; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; METATARSALGIA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METATARSAL BONES; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; SPORTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247853398     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0195-5     Document Type: Article

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