Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb

[Funicular myelosis--an unusual case of unilateral destruction of the tarsus]

Year 1998
Forke L. Matzen PF. Kloppel R.
Orthopadische Klinik des Marienstifts Arnstadt.
The presentation includes an unusual destruction of the tarsus of a 64 year old patient with subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord caused by chronical vitamin-B12-deficiency. This case report will be shown a systemical disease as a possible cause of localized bone-destruction in differentialdiagnosis.