Diabetes has been one of the most common chronic diseases all over the world. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the foot loading characteristics of diabetic patients with fifth-toe deformity through a comparative analysis with diabetic patients with healthy and normal feet. Six neuropathic diabetic female subjects with the fifth-toe deformation and six age-matched neuropath...

Stress fractures of the toes are rare. Most reported fractures of the proximal phalanx of the great toe have been associated with halux valgus deformity. Two cases are presented that illustrate several unique features of this rare injury which have not been reported before. One of the cases went on to non-union, requiring bone grafting and internal fixation.

Since the discussion of the competence{performance dichotomy in Chomsky (1965), it has been commonly assumed that the problem of characterizing an individual's grammatical knowledge is distinct from that of characterizing how and whether a speaker/hearer builds grammatical representations during language production/comprehension. A linguist presented with data concerning some facet of language ...

Received November 2007 Accepted March 2008 INTRODUCTION In 1964, Pfeiffer described an acrocephalosyndactyly syndrome consisting of bicoronal craniosynostosis, midface hypoplasia, broad thumbs, broad big toes, and partial and variable soft-tissue syndactyly of the hands and feet.(1) Autosomal dominant inheritance with complete penetrance is the main characteristic despite variable expressivity ...