What is the most effective management of an acute fracture of the base of the fifth metatarsal? Evidence-Based Answer:For an avulsion fracture of the fifth metatarsal, a soft dressing or walking boot is better than casting in reducing pain and time to baseline function. Surgical treatment i...
Professional basketball players with pes planus and metatarsus adductus have an exaggerated curved 5th metatarsal shaft with a prominent base and are at higher risk of Jones fracture with a 30% nonunion rate [19]. Jones fractures can be difficult to treat with delayed and non-union attributed ...
Work objective: Comparison of clinical and radiographic outcomes among conservation therapy and acute surgical therapy of the fifth-metatarsal fracture base. Methods and patients: Twenty patients have been treated with percutaneous fixation with a 4,0 mm cannula screw and 20 have been conservatively ...
This study aimed to evaluate and compare the clinico-radiographic outcomes between two techniques for acute Lisfranc fracture-dislocation with a large, displaced second metatarsal base plantar fracture: isolated Lisfranc screw fixation versus Lisfranc joint fixation with dorsoplantar miniscrew fixation of ...