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05/11/2013 Don Peacock, DPM
Overlapping 2nd Digit Status Post Bunionectomy
I wanted to show a nice correction I got on a bunion deformity with the patient who I felt uncomfortable with doing a 1st tmetatarsal osteotomy on. In your case, you would have to remove the fixation in the first metatarsal. This can complicate the redo procedure for the patient. On the elderly patient, I’m going to show I performed a minimally invasive bunionectomy and Akin through and through.
I used the same incision percutaneously to perform the bunionectomy and the Akin. The interesting result with her x-rays is that despite the only osteotomy I performed was in the hallux, the IM angle reduced. If you look at the pre-op x-rays and compare them to the post-op x-rays, you can see obvious improvement in the 1stt met angle and in the sesamoid position. Also, the joint, which was deviated pre-operatively, is now in good anatomical position. The same sort of pathology exists in your patient. The hallux osteotomy can work well because it realigns the first metatarsal phalangeal joint by shifting the pull of the FHL. Your options for the second toe are not as easily addressable.. If that fixation was not in place this could easily be corrected with a transverse osteotomy through minimally invasive correction at the base of the proximal phalanx to realign the second toe like In did in my patient. . However, the fixation prevents this or at least complicates this type of approach.
For the second toe, I would probably perform a Johnson modified Weil osteotomy along with and release of the medial structures in the second metatarsal phalangeal joint.
Don Peacock, DPM, Whiteville, NC, peacockdpm@gmail.com
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05/14/2013 Ed Cohen, DPM
Overlapping 2nd Digit Status Post Bunionectomy (Don Peacock, DPM)
If you have a 77 year old patient with painful corns between the big toe and the second toe along with a bunion (assuming the patient had sufficient circulation), a great procedure would be an MIS resection of bone from the medial PIPJ of the second toe and an MIS resection of bone from the lateral hallux distal hallux joint.
These procedures are very atraumatic and can dramatically improve the quality of life in this type of patient. My assumption is that this patient would be a poor candidate for any bunion surgery, even for a simple MIS modified McBride- Akin bunionectomy, which could be done with two stitches. The point is the goal of surgery is to eliminate pain and not put the patient at risk. This correction is not perfect but it could dramatically increase the patients ability to wear shoes and to ambulate.
Getting back to Dr. Peacock's case, he stated he felt uncomfortable do an MIS first metatarsal osteotomy on this patient. If we assume this to be a fact, his correction was an excellent surgery as seen by the pre and post-op x-rays. Dr. Kittay raises a good point that there was some distortion in the post op x-ray because there was some supination in the foot when the x- ray was taken.
It would be nice to see a photograph of this foot after surgery and another x-ray where the foot is not supinated. I am sure that Dr. Peacock will provide the readers of PM News with this information.
My contention is if this patient was not a good candidate for a first metatarsal osteotomy, Dr. Peacock performed a great surgery on this patient and significantly improved the quality of her life. I haven't seen the post-op picture and x- ray without supination and my view could change , but I feel this was a very happy patient and Dr. Peacock is extremely proud of this MIS surgery.
This brings me to my next point. If we assume this patient was not a good candidate for an MIS first metatarsal surgery, she certainly would not be a good candidate for a Lapidus surgery. As to the proposed Keller bunionectomy or fusion, I would make the same argument. I have had too many patients come into my office who have had Keller bunionectomies where the big toe sticks up and the big toe retracts.
I know the successful Keller bunionectomies generally don't come into my office, but as in this case, the 1st MPJ is fine and not painful and it always better to preserve a major joint than to destroy it. This is my same argument for also not fusing the 1st MPJ. Ed Cohen, DPM, Gulfport, MS, ECohen1344@aol.com
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