HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY

Cellular and Molecular Biology

 

Neuroma under the fifth metatarsal head. A retrospective study

J. Valero1, J. Gallart1, D. González1, L. Agustín1, R. Marquina1, J. Deus2 and M. Lahoz3

1José Valero Salas Clinic, Zaragoza, 2Department of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza and 3Department of Human Anatomy and Histology. School of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Offprint requests to: M. Lahoz, Departamento de Anatomía e Histología Humanas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/ Domingo Miral s/n, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain. e-mail: mlahozg@unizar.es or clinicajosevalero@gmail.com


Summary. This retrospective study was carried out over 83 surgical cases at the distal portion of the fifth metatarsal, compromising the treatment of tailor’s bunion, fifth metatarsal overload and the concomitant presence of both pathologies in some cases. Neuromas were founded under the fifth metatarsal head in 18 of the cases studied (21.7%). The results look at whether if there is an association between different fifth metatarsal pathologies and the presence of neuromas and found a significant association between the appearance of neuromas in patients with the same metatarsal overload, especially if it is accompanied by a tailor’s bunion pathology
. Histol Histopathol 27, 1103-1107 (2012)

Key words: Neuroma, Fifth metatarsal, Surgery

DOI: 10.14670/HH-27.1103