Table 5. Distribution of sesamoid bones in the foot reported by various studies.a.
| Joint | Pfitzner (1892)19 | Bizarro (1921)1 | Msamati and Igbigbi (2001)6 | Dharap et al, (2007)10 | Coskun et al, (2009)8 | Sun et al, (2016)20 | Koo et al, (2017)21 (CR;DTS) | Present study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st MTP | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.96 | 100;100 | 100 |
| 2nd MTP | 1.6 | 1 | - | 2.1 | 0.4 | 3.08 | 5;8 | 3.7 |
| 3rd MTP | - | 1 | - | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.39 | 2;1 | 1 |
| 4th MTP | - | 2 | - | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.69 | 2;2 | 0.9 |
| 5th MTP | 5.5-6.2 | 10 | 10.8 | 12.1 | 4.3 | 8.94 | 14;25 | 13.7 |
| 1st IP | 50.6 | 5 | - | 3.9 | 2 | 59.22 | 68;65 | 9.9 |
| 2nd IP | 1.2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3rd IP | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
MTP: metatarsophalangeal; IP: interphalangeal; CR: conventional radiograph; DTS: digital tomosynthesis tool
aadapted from Bizarro (1921) and Yammine (2014).