Magnetic resonance imaging and histopathologic appearances of benign soft-tissue masses of the foot.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now the modality of choice for the investigation of soft-tissue tumours, providing excellent anatomic detail and soft-tissue contrast. As the availability of MRI has increased, the number of requests for studies of the foot and ankle has similarly increased. The imaging department at the authors' institution, a tertiary care teaching hospital, has a large orthopedic and podiatric referral base, and as a consequence the authors have had the opportunity to study a large variety of benign soft-tissue tumours with MRI. In this pictorial essay they review the MRI and pathological appearances of the most common benign soft-tissue tumours that occur in the foot and ankle.
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
P M
PM
Logan
D L
DL
Janzen
J X
JX
O'Connell
P L
PL
Munk
D G
DG
Connell
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000473:pathology; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018317:Nerve Sheath Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*