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Freiberg infraction (medicine)


Freiberg infraction
<orthopaedics, radiology> Osteochondrosis of the metatarsal head, usually the 2nd, and less commonly in the 1st and 3rd, originally thought to be a form of aseptic necrosis, now thought to be an infarction or a stress fracture.

It tends to occur in late adolescence, and the articular end becomes flattened (sometimes concave and irregular), small ossicles may form after healing, DJD is commonly a late complication