as follows. About thirteen mouths ago while on a journey, he happened to break one of the glasses of his master's lantern, and accidently trod on the pieces during the night, which resulted in a wound on the plantar aspect of the foot (the cicatrix of which he still bears) between the bases of the 1st and 2nd metatarsal bones, and a " great loss of blood." Being under the impression that he was...

During the archaeological excavation of a multicultural settlement at the Nitra-Chrenova site (southwestern Slovakia) an assemblage of animal bone remains was revealed. In one of the settlement features dated to the Roman period a complete horse skeleton was discovered. An investigation was carried out in the hind limb of the horse’s skeleton involving macroscopic and radiographic analysis. Exo...

An aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a rare, non-neoplastic, destructive, hemorrhagic and expansile lesion accounting for 1% of all bone tumors. This type of lesion predominantly affects long bones and vertebrae. ABC of the metatarsal is rare and only a few cases have been reported in the literature to date. The present study reports a rare case of ABC of the third metatarsal occurring in a 27-year...

Osteomyelitis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a rare entity. This clinical condition even rarer when the bones of extremities like foot are involved. There paucity literature on isolated tubercular involvement foot. Further, congenital hallux valgus an infrequently reported condition. A case first metatarsal left with without pulmonary never in literature. We herein present its type whe...

Tuberculosis manifesting at extrapulmonary sites is relatively rare. Isolated cases involving small bones of the foot are rarest We herein present case a 30-year-old Indian female who presented with pain and wound discharging sinus over her left foot. In absence constitutional symptoms tuberculosis, this was diagnosed as isolated tuberculous osteomyelitis fifth metatarsal phalanx help radiograp...

Skeletal abnormalities are most often used to describe defects in the arms or legs that are associated with genes or chromosomes, or that occur due to an event that happens during pregnancy. Spider lamb syndrome (SLS) is a congenital disorder in sheep breeding that is recognized by some deformities in skeletal system especially in the limbs. A dead day-old cross-breed white lamb with deformed l...

A prospective trial is reported which compares distal osteotomy of the first metatarsal with Keller's arthroplasty in the treatment of adult hallux valgus. A total of 33 patients attended for review at least three years after operation. Symptomatic improvement, as assessed by patient satisfaction, pain relief, cosmetic improvement and restoration of function, was similar in the two groups. Obje...