Among studies of stress fractures in the lower extremities, Yale4 reported that the cuboid bone was not affected in any of 3163 infantry recruits with lower extremity stress fractures. Posinkovic and Pavlovic5 studied 113 cases of stress fractures in soldiers from 1981 to 1986, and reported that the majority of stress fractures occurred within the metatarsal bones (105/113), with only 1 of 113 occurring in the cuboid. Pester and Smith6 also reported only one cuboid fracture in a total of 1,338 fatigue fractures of the foot and lower leg in military recruits. By contrast, Greaney et al7 studied a series of 250 marine recruits with lower extremity fractures, and found that 11 soldiers (4.4%) had involvement of the cuboid bone. Oestreich and Bhojwani8 examined the locations of tarsal and carpal bone stress fracture callus on plain radiographs of 527 children, and found 188 cuboid stress fracture, and concluded that tarsal stress fractures in children are not rare. Thus the incidence of cuboid bone stress fracture varies among studies. It is possible that some cases were undetected.