Anatom3DLeft second metatarsal bone
Os metatarsi II sinistrum · Levá druhá nártní kost
Skeleton
Looks like
The longest metatarsal, behind the second toe, its base locked into the cuneiforms.
What it does
A rigid central strut of the forefoot.
Keeping it well
The most common site of march (stress) fractures from increased walking or running; its base is key in Lisfranc injuries.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bunion & foot deformity
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Morton's neuroma
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency