title: Osteochondroma of the calcaneus presenting as Haglund's deformity.
abstract: Haglund's deformity is a symptomatic osseous prominence of the posterosuperior corner of the calcaneus creating posterior heel pain and swelling around the insertion of the Achilles tendon. We have experienced an exceptionally huge Haglund's deformity in a 22-year-old female who initially presented to us with a large painful bony heel mass that had developed over the last decade. We performed the surgical resection of the prominence and the pathology confirmed the diagnosis of calcaneal osteochondroma. To our best knowledge, such a gigantic Haglund's deformity caused by calcaneal osteochondroma has never been reported in any medical literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Konkuk University School of Medicine, 4-12 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-729, Republic of Korea. jungfoot@hanmail.net
authors.forename: Hong-Geun
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: John Alistair
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Carag
authors.forename: Jae-Yong
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Eui-Jung
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: So-Dug
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Han-Soo
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000473:pathology; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015831:Osteochondroma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D055815:Young Adult