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G A Wasiak

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Outpatient surgery of a unicameral bone cyst of the calcaneus.

The trend in medicine is toward increasing surgical procedures being performed on an outpatient basis. The authors present their clinical findings, differential diagnosis, and surgical treatment plan utilizing an allograft of freeze-dried cortical and cancellous bone for a unicameral bone cyst of the calcaneus treated on an outpatient basis.

Adolescent

Traumatic hallux varus correction via split extensor tenodesis.

Hallux varus is a deformity, either congenital or acquired, of the first metatarsophalangeal joint. It presents as a medical deviation of the hallux in relation to the longitudinal axis of the first metatarsal shaft. The authors discuss the case history of a patient and the surgical technique--a split width tenodesis--which they used to correct the deformity.

Female