When we speak about the diabetic foot we are referring to a summary of pathologies which have an impact on the foot as a result of the Diabetes Mellitus which the patient suffers. Diabetes is a chronic disease which affects to a vast number of people causing them a series of serious complications and a […]
The unguinal pathology produces a lot of surgical operations confronted to other surgeries which affects to the foot. There are countless techniques described which depend of the toe state, and of every professional’s skill and experience. The surgical variability takes in from the complete extirpation of the nail, the only resection from tender parts and […]
The osteoma is a benign osseous tumor the origin of which is in the bone cortical. Statistically, it develops more in the bones that morphologically longer in young males. They are slow growth tumors and according to bibliographies, they are painless. (They are described like this from the point of view that they are uncommon […]
The transmetatarsal amputation is one of the most surgical resections in foot. This kind of amputations are usually made as a consequence of serious infections –very frequent in diabetic patients-, vascular alterations and traumatisms from several causes. Sometimes, a transmetatarsal amputation is better than to keep rigid or deformed toes which may alter the correct […]
We define rheumatoid foot as the foot affected by inflammatory or rheumatic diseases in multiple joints. The most common symptoms the rheumatoid foot presents are: pain, stiffness, deformity and numbness. The most common rheumatic pathologies are: rheumatoid arthritis, arthrosis and psoriatic arthropathy. • Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory malady of corrective tissue. It is […]
The Hallux Varus is a deformity of the first radius which has a deviation of the great toe towards a medial or tibial direction. Visually, it is the antithesis of hallux valgus or bunion. We can see a supination of the great toe and a negative metatarsophalangeal angle. This anomaly has several causes: Functional: as […]
The hallux extensus consists of the dorsiflexion or dorsal extension of the first radius. Its origin may be congenital or acquired and it is mainly caused by: a paralysis, involving brain-vascular accidents and neuromuscular diseases, among others; due to different types of alterations at the metatarsophalangeal and interphalangeal joint, such as the shortening of the […]
Hallux abductus valgus is a deformity affecting the metatarsophalangeal joint of the first radius of the foot as well as the sesamoids and first toe. It is characterized by the deviation of the first toe medial axis relative to the body and by rotation of the valgus. This causes a dislocation of the metatarsophalangeal joint, […]
Hallux flexus is an anomaly of the big toe that causes an elevation of the head of the first metatarsal and a plantarflexion of the proximal phalanx. Structurally the metatarsophalangeal joint adopts a certain degree of dorsiflexion while the interphalangeal joint forms a plantarflexion to compensate. This deformity of the first radius is accompanied by […]
Elephantiasis is a syndrome mainly caused by hypertrophy of the lower extremities and external genitalia. It has its etiology in repetitive inflammatory diseases with obstruction of the lymphatic vessels and very specifically in filarial parasitic infections. Elephantiasis is a tropical skin disease caused by Wuchereria bancrofti type parasites. Transmission is due to the bite of […]
