title: Myositis ossificans on the forearm in a 10-year-old girl.
abstract: Myositis ossificans is a rarely encountered benign lesion characterized by a non-neoplastic heterotopic bone formation in both soft tissue and skeletal muscle. Three subgroups of myositis ossificans are identified: myositis ossificans progressiva, which is hereditary; nontraumatic or pseudomalignant myositis ossificans, which is developed in the absence of any trauma; and myositis ossificans circumscripta, which is related to evident and direct trauma. In this case report, we present a girl with a swelling on the forearm who was finally diagnosed with nontraumatic myositis ossificans.
authors: aDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University bDepartment of Pathology, Samsun Training and Research Hospital, Samsun cDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors: Ferhat
authors: F
authors: Say
authors: Sina
authors: S
authors: Coşkun
authors: Murat
authors: M
authors: Bülbül
authors: Ömer
authors: Ö
authors: Alici
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009221:Myositis Ossificans / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*