Affiliation:
1. Dekalb County Orthopaedics, Dekalb, Illinois 60115.
2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
Abstract
Failure of surgical management of fractures of the base of the fifth metatarsal distal to the tuberosity is uncommon. Only one such failure has been reported in the literature to date. The purpose of this article is to present the clinical course of 11 patients with failure of surgically managed Jones fractures reviewed by the senior author (J.S.T.). Surgical management was complicated by delayed union in three patients, refracture in seven patients, and nonunion in one patient. The 11 procedures were divided between two established techniques: (1) intramedullary screw fixation (N = 6) and (2) inlaid corticocancellous bone graft (N = 5). In the six intramedullary fixation procedures, using other than a 4.5-mm ASIF malleolar screw for internal fixation correlated with failure. In the five inlaid bone graft procedures, undersized corticocancellous grafts and incomplete reaming of the medullary canal correlated with failure. Also, after both procedures, early return to vigorous physical activity is believed to have played a role in delayed union and refracture.
Subject
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Surgery
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