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Freiberg's infraction: a subchondral bone fatigue fracture. A new surgical treatment.
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Bone DiseaseSkeletal TraumaNew Surgical TreatmentPlantar Pressure PointsOsteopathyThird Metatarsal HeadDistraction OsteogenesisSurgical StabilizationFracture HealingSurgeryMedicineOsteoporosisOrthopaedic SurgerySpinal FractureMetatarsal Head
Observations on plantar pressure points suggest that Freiberg's infraction is osteonecrosis of the second or third metatarsal head resulting from a subchrondral bone fatique fracture. A series of 53 cases were successfully treated by deflexion osteotomy of the involved metatarsal head.