Extra-articular en bloc resection of the talocrural and the talocalcaneonavicular joints for primary malignant synovial tumour (myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma).
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.
Reiland
Youri
Y
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Zurich, Balgrist, Switzerland. yreiland_so@spital.ktso.ch
Dumont
Charles E
CE
Bode-Lesniewska
Beata
B
Exner
G Ulrich
GU