1. Complete bony coalition of the talus and navicular: decades of discomfort
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David Bryson, Dipen K Menon, Shaishav B Bhagat, and C.E. Uzoigwe
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Delayed Diagnosis ,Foot Deformities, Congenital ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Tarsal coalition ,medicine.disease ,Asymptomatic ,Article ,Talus ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Tarsus (skeleton) ,Orthopedic surgery ,medicine ,Humans ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Ankle pain ,Foot (unit) ,Rare disease - Abstract
Tarsal coalition is a congenital disturbance of hindfoot development. Talonavicular coalition is among the rarest forms of aberrant bony union of the tarsus. It frequently occurs bilaterally and in association with a number of skeletal deformities. Some patients are asymptomatic and the anomaly is discovered incidentally on plain radiographs. For others, a troublesome bony prominence will be the principle complaint and in a small proportion of patients marked foot and ankle pain with activity will prove debilitating. The authors describe the case of a 54-year-old male with bilateral foot pain spanning for nearly two decades. Symptom onset was insidious and at the time of presentation, he was limited to 10-15 min of mobilisation on flat ground.
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- 2011
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