[Special indications for Helal's serial metatarsal osteotomy].

Authors discuss, presenting case reports, the operative indications of Helal's metatarsal serial osteotomy. In their first case this kind of operation was performed because of metatarsalgia, following traumatic amputation of the hallux. In their second case, in a young female with rheumatoid arthritis, considering the age of the patient and the destruction in the metatarsophalangeal joints too, Helal's metatarsus osteotomies were completed with the resection of the basis of the ground phalanx. In both cases good correction was reached and without any complaints.