What is the most likely diagnosis?
- 39 year-old female with pain in foot
AP and Oblique Views of Right Foot
- Bunion
- Bunionette
- Sesamoiditis
- Lis-Franc fracture
- Fractured 5th metatarsal
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2. Bunionette
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Bunionette
General Considerations
- Painful prominence at 5th metatarsal head laterally
- Originally described in tailors who sat cross-legged resulting in chronic pain and swelling over lateral aspect of 5th metatarsal head
- Much more common in females
- Related to narrow footwear
- Less common than hallux valgus (bunion)
- May also be due to congenital structural abnormalities, anomalous ligament insertion, inflammatory arthropathies, previous foot surgery