Surgical treatment of calcaneus-navicular synostosis
Lejman, T.; Kowalczyk, B.ło.
Chirurgia Narzadow Ruchu i Ortopedia Polska 69(6): 403-405
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-479X PMID: 15913027 Document Number: 569380
We resected eight calcaneus-navicular bars in six children. The average age at the surgery was fifteen years, and the average follow up period was four years. In all cases the extensor digitorum brevis was interposed into the gap created by an excision of the bar. On the follow up three feet were painfree and four were occasionally painful. In one case a coalition recurred, and the pain did not improve. The ankle range of motion was normal in all cases, whereas the subtalar motion was limited in three feet, and normal in the remaining five.