TRAUMATIC MYOSITIS-OSSIFICANS OF THE QUADRICEPS IN INFANTS

Acute traumatic myositis ossifications is uncommon and usually occurs in adolescents and young adults after a significant direct blow to the affected muscle. It is extremely rare in infants, and we have been ab le to find only two other cases in the English literature (3,4). We pr esent two cases of traumatic myositis ossificans in infants who, excep t for the use of diagnostic ultrasonography, would have been misdiagno sed as having osteomyelitis (Patient 1) and a possible malignancy (Pat ient 2).