The human foot exhibits a range of normal anatomical variants known as accessory ossicles, small extra bone fragments that arise from unfused secondary ossification centres. Although most ossicles ...

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra bones, tiny or substantial, are scattered through the population, quietly ...

Accessory ossicles are bony structures (normal congenital variant) that separate from adjacent bone and are usually embedded within tendons. More than 40 different types of accessory ossicles have ...