Table 8 Reported frequencies of calcaneus secundarium.

From: Accessory foot bones in a Portuguese identified skeletal collection

Reference

Prevalence

Sample size

Frequency basis

Pfitzner (1896)6

2.0%

840

Foot

Stieda (1869)4

0.8%

120

Foot

Bizarro (1921)45

1.0%

100

Foot

Heimerzheim (1925)49

0.1%

1800

Foot

Anderson (1988)18

4.8%

268

Foot

Silva (2011)19

11.8%

68

Foot

Kalbouneh et al. (2017)13

0.3%

1000

Individual

Present study

6.0%

486

Individual

Back to article page