title: Extra-articular en bloc resection of the talocrural and the talocalcaneonavicular joints for primary malignant synovial tumour (myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma).
abstract: A 13-year-old boy presented with a diagnosis of intra-articular myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma of the ankle. There had been no previous description of a sarcoma arising directly from the synovium of the ankle and limb salvage for malignant tumours of the ankle has rarely been reported. We treated him by peritalar extra-articular resection, and draw attention to this rare tumour and to a technique of limb-sparing resection of the ankle joint.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, University of Zurich, Balgrist, Switzerland. yreiland_so@spital.ktso.ch
authors.forename: Youri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Reiland
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Dumont
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bode-Lesniewska
authors.forename: G Ulrich
authors.initials: GU
authors.lastname: Exner