Foot and Ankle Surgery
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 67-68, 2007

Butler's procedure for correction of overriding fifth toe:

A retrospective study

  • Srikanth Gollamudi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1273 696955x7848; fax: +44 1273 664987.
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  • Timothy John Turnbull

      Affiliations

    • Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK

Received 28 November 2005; received in revised form 21 August 2006; accepted 18 October 2006.

Abstract 

Congenital overriding fifth toe is a well-recognised deformity often treated surgically. In this article, we have compared our experience of Butler's procedure in 12 patients with the three articles published so far. One patient was lost to follow-up. The average age and follow-up of our patients was 15 and 6 years, respectively. We achieved six excellent, three good and two poor results. The 10–15 year age group had the highest percentage of excellent/good results. Nine patients were satisfied. However, residual deformity was noted among all the age groups. We conclude that it is difficult to correlate the results of the operation with the age of the patient at surgery.

Keywords: Overriding fifth toe, Butler's procedure

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PII: S1268-7731(06)00108-1

doi:10.1016/j.fas.2006.10.004

Foot and Ankle Surgery
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 67-68, 2007

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