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Creating Rigidly Stabilized Fractures for Assessing Intramembranous Ossification, Distraction Osteogenesis, or Healing of Critical Sized Defects
Published on: April 11, 2012
Ossicles anterior to the proximal tibia
R A Bloom1, J Gomori, C Milgrom
1Department of Radiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Abstract:
Ossicles anterior to the anterior tibia are most usually seen in relation to the tibial tuberosity. While these are usually taken to represent sequelae of previous Osgood-Schlatter disease, they may, on occasion, represent normal variants in ossification of the tuberosity. Ossicles superior to the tuberosity may have similar origins. Representative examples are presented, as is a very large ossicle separated from the anterior tibia by a prolongation of the knee joint space. Theories of causation of such ossicles are discussed.
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