Calcaneonavicular coalition treated by resection and interposition of the extensor digitorum brevis muscle.
Seventy-five feet in forty-eight patients that had calcaneonavicular coalition were evaluated at two to twenty-three years after resection of the coalition and interposition of the extensor digitorum brevis muscle. The result was excellent or good in fifty-eight feet (77 per cent). Three feet that were rated initially as having a fair result improved over time, and at the last follow-up the result in those feet was rated as good. Only five feet (7 per cent) had a poor result. The best results were in patients who had a cartilaginous coalition and who were less than sixteen years old at the time of operation.
Gonzalez
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Alfred I. duPont Institute, Wilmington, Delaware 19899.
Kumar
S J
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D000293:Adolescent; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009132:Muscles / Q000637:transplantation*; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011859:Radiography; D013639:Tarsal Bones / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*