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Idiopathic punctate necrosis of the phalanges of the feet
T E Keats1, R R Johnson, R E Fechner
1Department of Radiology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 22908.
Skeletal Radiology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Small areas of discrete radiolucency surrounded by well-defined margins of sclerosis are incidental asymptomatic findings in the proximal phalanges of the feet, usually in young males. Histologic examination of similar lesions discovered in the feet of cadavers shows fat necrosis. Although the etiology of these lesions is as yet unproven, musculoskeletal stress is suggested.