Self-fat injection of surgical failure after a Ledderhose illness. Clinical case

• Main Authors: Francisco Muñoz Piqueras, Pedro F. Bejarano, Miguel Muñoz Bautista, Cristina Batalla Salgado
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inspira Network 2018-12-01
• Series: Revista Española de Podología
• Subjects: Methatarsalgia; Ledderhose illness; plantar fibromatosis; biological therapy; complementary therapy; allografts; platelet rich plasma
• Online Access: https://www.revesppod.com/Ficheros/214/6/06_NC_ENG_podologia_vol29_n2_mu%C3%B1oz.pdf

Methatarsalgia caused by insufficience of the plantar pad is the result of several intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The use of selffat infiltration as a therapy for refilling a tissular deficiency, added to the PRGF-Endoret biological therapy should be considered as an alternative therapy to other options with byocompatible materials, such as xenografts or allografts. This article presents a clinical case of a patient successfully treated by autologous lipoinjection in a loss of plantar fat in the area of the first metatarsal secondary to previous surgery due to Ledderhose’s disease. This is a new therapeutic option that could be very useful for the podiatrist in the treatment of this type of cases of located loss of plantar fat pad.