Patient with Bone Atrophy of the Feet

Special Article: Orthopedics: Clinical Cases and Images

Austin J Orthopade & Rheumatol. 2014;1(2): 1.

Patient with Bone Atrophy of the Feet

Pedro Carpintero*, Manuel Roman and Rocio Carpintero

Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Reina Sofia, Spain

*Corresponding author: Pedro Carpintero, Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Reina Sofia, Mejorana 45. 14012. Cordoba, Spain,

Received: November 28, 2014; Accepted: December 01, 2014; Published: December 04, 2014

African patient of 34-year old admitted to hospital for foot deformity. Was treated ten years after in his country of leprous nepromatosy, in x-ray examination (Figure 1) was observed marked resorption of phalanges and metatarsals, with tapered appearance (“licked candy stick” or pencil like” osteolysis.

Citation: Carpintero P, Roman M and Carpintero R. Patient with Bone Atrophy of the Feet. Austin J Orthopade & Rheumatol. 2014;1(2): 1. ISSN: 2472-369X