title: Imaging of Mueller-Weiss Syndrome: A Review of Clinical Presentations and Imaging Spectrum.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Mueller-Weiss syndrome is a complex condition of the adult tarsal navicular characterized by progressive fragmentation leading to mid- and hindfoot pain and deformity. Since its first descriptions in the early 20th century, controversy has persisted regarding its pathogenesis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article reviews the literature and discusses the anatomy, epidemiology, causes, clinical and radiologic findings, and treatment of Mueller-Weiss syndrome, and thus permits a better understanding of this disease and its management.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8042.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Samim
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8042.|2 Present address: 1606 Leist Ave., Lima, OH 45805.
authors.forename: Hicham A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Moukaddam
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Smitaman
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005531:Foot Deformities, Acquired / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013577:Syndrome; D013639:Tarsal Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Mueller-Weiss syndrome; acetabular pedis; navicular; paradoxical pes planovarus; talocuneiform joint