Table 11 Reported prevalence of os intermetatarseum in the literature.

From: Accessory foot bones in a Portuguese identified skeletal collection

Reference

Prevalence

Sample

Frequency basis

Gruber (1864)3

8.0%

100

Individual

Pfitzner (1896)6

12.5%

313

Individual

Dwight (1907)7

10.0%

–

–

Geist (1915)8

0.0%

100

Individual

Bizarro (1921)45

0.0%

100

Foot

Heimerzheim (1925)49

0.4%

1800

Foot

Case et al. (1998)21

3.5%

971

Individual

Cilli and Akcaoglu (2005)14

0.2%

464 (♂)

–

Coskun et al. (2009)41

0.2%

984

Foot

Kalbouneh et al. (2017)13

0.2%

1000

Individual

Present study

0.8%

486

Individual