Pigmented villonodular synovitis arising from the sheath of the extensor hallucis longus in an eight-month-old infant.
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 thought likely to be a sarcoma proved to be PVS on biopsy.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland.
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Curtin
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Lahoti
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Fogarty
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Dowling
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Regan
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007866:Leg; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013586:Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology