Do Broken Toes Need Follow-Up in the Fracture Clinic?

Most toe phalangeal fractures can be successfully treated nonoperatively without any residual deformity and are usually clinically asymptomatic. Toe phalangeal fractures are nevertheless common fracture clinic referrals. Our aim was to evaluate the injury characteristics of patients with toe fractures attending a fracture clinic and to understand how current management affects the fracture clinic workload.

Sports injury to a bipartite medial cuneiform in a child.

We report the case of an 11-year-old boy who had sustained a soccer injury to his mid-foot. Plain radiography did not reveal any fracture to account for the severity of his symptoms or his inability to bear weight. Magnetic resonance imaging was undertaken and demonstrated the medial cuneiform to be a bipartite bone consisting of 2 ossicles connected by a synchondrosis.