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Old 12th April 2006, 06:04 PM
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Last count there are 28 bones (2 sesamoids) and not 26 which seems to be the standard reference in foot health information.

Let us not forget the sesamoids, say I

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Hi Cameron,

Yup I agree... 28 bones (not including accessory bones if present)... I don't know what else the sesamoids are supposed to be if they are not bones?

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Ian Linane has a nicely wired-up skeleton foot with three (count them) great toe phalanges.
So that would make 29 including the sesamoids.

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Hi David

Hasten to add that it is not one of my own feet!!!

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We just did surgery on a patient that had about 37 bones in his foot. Unfortunately, about 9 of those extra bones were from his comminuted calcaneal fracture that we were repairing at the time. Do these extra bones count also??
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Who needs knockers?

When our peers read there are 26 bones in official litertature, what must they think?

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