title: Progress in the clinical imaging research of bone diseases on ankle and foot sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles.
abstract: Sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles are research focuses of foot and ankle surgery. Pains of the foot and ankle are related to sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles. The specific anatomical and functional relationship of sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles can cause such bone diseases as the dislocation of sesamoid bones and accessory bones, infection, inflammation and necrosis of sesamoid bones, cartilage softening, tenosynovitis of sesamoid bones and the sesamoid bone syndrome. However, these bone diseases are often misdiagnosed or mistreated. In patients with trauma history, relevant diseases of sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles as above mentioned are highly probable to be misdiagnosed as avulsion fractures. In such cases, radiographic findings may provide a basis for clinical diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiaozhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Lenian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Taiyun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Ankle and foot; bone diseases; image; sesamoid and accessory bone