Extract
Isolated calcaneocuboid instability is a rarely described clinical entity,
but it has been speculated that the number of patients in whom the condition
has been unrecognized or misdiagnosed is
high1. Up to the
present time, the cases of only eight operatively treated ankles have been
reported1-5
(Table I). The authors of those
reports agreed that initial treatment should be conservative. Besides
calcaneocuboid
arthrodesis2, a
plantaris tendon graft to reconstruct the calcaneocuboid
ligament3 has been
proposed as operative treatment. Recently, an anatomic repair has been
described by one of us
(H.L.)5.