Maple tree knee: a unique foreign body--value of ultrasound and CT examination.
This report describes an intraosseous maple branch fragment which presented on initial radiographs as a benign appearing lytic bone lesion. Sonography and CT confirmed the presence of intraosseous and intra-articular foreign body and chronic foreign body reaction.
Bray
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Departments of Radiology and Orthopedics, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
Stringer
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Poskitt
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Newman
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MacKenzie
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014934:Wood