Pigmented villonodular synovitis arising from the sheath of the extensor hallucis longus in an eight-month-old infant.

Curtin, W A; Lahoti, O P; Fogarty, E E; Dowling, F E; Regan, B F · Clin Orthop Relat Res · 1993

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVS) is a disease of unknown origin that most commonly affects the synovial joints and synovial sheaths of the skeletally mature. In an eight-month-old infant, a leg swelling thought likely to be a sarcoma proved to be PVS on biopsy.

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