PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR SYNOVITIS ARISING FROM THE SHEATH OF THE EXTENSOR HALLUCIS-LONGUS IN AN 8-MONTH-OLD INFANT

Authors
CURTIN WA LAHOTI OP FOGARTY EE DOWLING FE REGAN BF
Citation
Wa. Curtin et al., PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR SYNOVITIS ARISING FROM THE SHEATH OF THE EXTENSOR HALLUCIS-LONGUS IN AN 8-MONTH-OLD INFANT, Clinical orthopaedics and related research, (292), 1993, pp. 282-284
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,Orthopedics
Journal title
Clinical orthopaedics and related research → ACNP
ISSN journal
0009921X
Issue
292
Year of publication
1993
Pages
282 - 284
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-921X(1993):292<282:PVSAFT>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVS) is a disease of unknown origin that most commonly affects the synovial joints and synovial sheaths of the skeletally mature. In an eight-month-old infant, a leg swelling t hought likely to be a sarcoma proved to be PVS on biopsy.