Kitty is a 13 year old domestic short haired cat who found herself in trouble after falling from a work surface and fracturing three of her metatarsal bones including two of the main weight bearing metatarsals. The main challenge in repair of these fractures was the small diameter of the metatarsal bones, at only 4 mm across they would only accommodate the tiniest of implants.
A locking 1.5 kit was used to apply dorsal plates to metatarsals 2 and 3, and metatarsal 4 was repaired with a dowel pin due to the small amount of proximal bone stock.
Kitty
