We report a case of a 23-year-old woman who sustained a stress fracture to the medial cuneiform. Isolated medial cuneiform fractures are extremely rare with less than 10 cases reported in the literature. The patient initially presented to an urgent care facility complaining of right midfoot pain that occurred while running. Radiographs obtained at the time showed no acute abnormality and the pa...

The purpose of this investigation was to create a flatfoot model and reconstruct the deformity with a novel static medial ligamentous complex (MLC) and to evaluate its ability to correct talar head subluxation and the radiographic flatfoot deformity. Four pairs of matched cadaveric specimens were sectioned to create a severe flatfoot model. Cyclic preconditioning and axial loading was applied t...

Navicular bone and cuneiform were infrequent locations of tarsal tuberculosis. The present study reported an unusual case of navicular and cuneiform tuberculosis who was successfully treated with Streptomycin-loaded bone cement. A 71-year-old Chinese male patient was admitted to our hospital with complaints of swelling and pain at the dorsal aspect of the right foot for 6 months. The patient pr...

Cuneiform is the world’s oldest known writing system. Ancient scribes impressed reed styluses onto damp clay to write the approximately 900 different logographic, syllabic and taxographic signs. These clay tablets were preserved in the ruins of ancient Near Eastern cities for millennia, and today sit in museum storerooms around the world, where they are subject to degradation and are available ...

BACKGROUND Mueller-Weiss disease is a rarely diagnosed deformity where the navicular bone undergoes spontaneous osteonecrosis in adults. Until now, there is no widely accepted operative treatment for this unusual disease. We aimed to compare clinical and radiological outcomes between the open triple fusion and talonavicular-cuneiform arthrodesis for Mueller-Weiss disease of stage 4. METHODS D...

Gorillas are more closely related to each other than to any other extant primate and are all terrestrial knuckle-walkers, but taxa differ along a gradient of dietary strategies and the frequency of arboreality in their behavioral repertoire. In this study, we test the hypothesis that medial cuneiform morphology falls on a morphocline in gorillas that tracks function related to hallucial abducti...

Forefoot adduction is a common condition between metatarsus adductus, Z-shaped foot and residual clubfoot. This deformity is located in a pure transverse plane at Lisfranc’s joint. Isolated metatarsus adductus is corrected spontaneously for the majority of newborns. In rare uncorrected cases, it could result in Z-shaped foot with a functional hindfoot valgus to equilibrate the resistant metatar...