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The Wedge Shelf Osteotomy is a closing base wedge osteotomy used to correct metatarsus primus adductus. It involves making a through and through osteotomy from medial to lateral, guided by a K-wire. A wedge of bone is then removed to allow reduction of the intermetatarsal angle. The osteotomy edges are approximated and held with K-wires before being fixed with perpendicular screws, one acting as an anchor and the other for compression. The procedure provides uniplane, biplane, or triplane correction while m
- Author
- Monika Diaz Kristyaninda
- Language
- EN