title: Myositis ossificans in childhood.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histopathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia.
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Clapton
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Davey
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Peacock
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Byard
mesh_terms: 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