Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Volume 91, Issue 6

As with all professional organizations, the budget that funds APMA operations is derived from both dues and nondues income [...]

The purpose of this study was to quantify the occurrence of the arcuate artery. The arcuate artery was defined as that artery branching off the dorsalis pedis artery at or below the level of the tarsometatarsal joint, tending laterally across the bas...

The authors present a case report documenting the evaluation of monostotic fibrous dysplasia by magnetic resonance imaging. This type of evaluation demonstrates specificity for this disease process when combined with other imaging studies, laboratory...

Gross and Burnett1 in 1933 described the appearance of semifluctuant irregularly lobulated fatty masses beneath the outer malleoli as a common observance [...]

The 2000 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, November 12–16, 2000 [...]

This paper presents a selection of Internet resources covering most of the subject areas found in standard medical education curricula. Basic sciences sites are emphasized, but clinical resources are also included. Reported sites were judged based on...

To the Editor: Medical conditions associated with voodoo are not uncommon in Haiti. Voodoo is a folk religion that emerged from the interaction of West African ethnotheologies and European Christianity [...]

To the Editor: Complications contribute substantially to the morbidity and cost of diabetes mellitus.1 Foot problems in patients with diabetes are frequently complicated by secondary infections [...]

In a retrospective review of 233 cases of diabetic foot ulceration preceded by minor trauma, 192 ulcerations exhibited focal pressure keratosis as the preceding traumatic event. The frequency of outpatient visits and other foot care interventions wer...

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the magnitude and duration of plantar pressures acting on the feet of American Indians with diabetes mellitus. A secondary purpose was to determine whether differences in the range of motion of the a...

This study evaluated the efficacy of a novel surfactant, allantoin, and benzalkonium chloride hand sanitizer using the US Food and Drug Administration’s method for testing antiseptic hand washes that podiatric physicians and other health-care personn...

The authors investigated the effect of x-ray tube head angulation and central ray direction on the position of the first metatarsal relative to the second metatarsal in the lateral foot radiographic view. This preliminary study shows that these varia...