Plantar fasciitis. The painful heel syndrome

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Furey-JG J-Bone-Joint-Surg-Am. 1975 Jul; 57(5): 672-3 Of 116 patients with pain in the plantar portion of the heel, nineteen proved on follow-up to have systemic disease as the etiology. Of these treated with phenylbutazone, 71 per cent showed good results and a similar percentage benefited equally from injections of cortisone derivatives. Only two patients required surgical procedures, and these were successful in both.