Myositis ossificans in childhood.
Myositis ossificans is a benign, localized, ossifying lesion of soft tissues that is rarely reported in young children. This paper describes two cases found in a search of the surgical biopsy files of the Adelaide Children's Hospital over the 30 yr period from 1962 to 1991, in boys both aged 7 yrs. Diagnosis was assisted by combined clinical, radiological and histopathological information (including an adequate well-orientated biopsy in Case 1 that demonstrated the characteristic growth pattern) enabling differentiation from other possibilities such as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Clapton
W K
WK
Department of Histopathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia.
James
C L
CL
Morris
L L
LL
Davey
R B
RB
Peacock
M J
MJ
Byard
R W
RW
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009221:Myositis Ossificans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed