Use of internal callus distraction in the treatment of congenital brachymetatarsia.
Congenital bilateral brachymetatarsia of the fourth metatarsal bone was treated by osteotomy and bone lengthening using the internal distraction technique. The patient was cosmetically improved. This technique has some advantages over the method of external distraction.
Yamada
Naoto
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato Sagamihara, Kanagawa 228-8555, Japan. ymprs@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Yasuda
Yoshihiro
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Hashimoto
Nobuko
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Iwashiro
Hironobu
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Uchinuma
Eiju
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D000328:Adult; D002146:Bony Callus / Q000601:surgery; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005532:Foot Deformities, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008684:Metatarsus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D019857:Osteogenesis, Distraction / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography