{"title":"Hemi-implants in foot surgery.","authors":"B M Dobbs","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hemi-implants, when first marketed, seemed the answer for a shortened nonfunctional hallux that sometimes followed a Keller bunionectomy. Then a few years later, with the use of the total implant, the hemi- plant was all but forgotten. It is the author's opinion that there are still many situations in which the hemi-implant has advantages over a Keller bunionectomy or total implant.</p>","PeriodicalId":77837,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in podiatry","volume":"1 1","pages":"79-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinics in podiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hemi-implants, when first marketed, seemed the answer for a shortened nonfunctional hallux that sometimes followed a Keller bunionectomy. Then a few years later, with the use of the total implant, the hemi- plant was all but forgotten. It is the author's opinion that there are still many situations in which the hemi-implant has advantages over a Keller bunionectomy or total implant.