{"title":"Use of internal callus distraction in the treatment of congenital brachymetatarsia","authors":"Naoto Yamada, Yoshihiro Yasuda, Nobuko Hashimoto, Hironobu Iwashiro, Eiju Uchinuma","doi":"10.1016/j.bjps.2005.04.042","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>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.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":9252,"journal":{"name":"British journal of plastic surgery","volume":"58 7","pages":"Pages 1014-1019"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.bjps.2005.04.042","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British journal of plastic surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007122605001529","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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.