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Pigmented villonodular synovitis arising from the sheath of the extensor hallucis longus in an eight-month-old infant
W A Curtin1, O P Lahoti, E E Fogarty
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|July 1, 1993
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.