Normal Variations and Pathologic Disorders of Chondrification and Ossification of the Foot and Related Diseases

Marc Steinborn; Christian Glaser

doi:10.1055/s-0039-1695721

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Table of Contents

Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2019; 23(05): 497-510
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1695721

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Normal Variations and Pathologic Disorders of Chondrification and Ossification of the Foot and Related Diseases

Marc Steinborn

¹Department of Diagnostic and Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Munchen Klinik Schwabing, Munich, Germany

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Christian Glaser

²Munich-Pasing Radiological Centre, Munich, Germany

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Abstract

Formation of the skeletal elements of the foot involves different stages of development. Failure in segmentation of the cartilaginous plate is supposed to be the underlying mechanism leading to tarsal coalition. Variants or disorders in ossification might result in harmless osseous anomalies or symptomatic disease. When the ossification is almost completed, several secondary ossification centers start to ossify. They are usually incidental findings. In symptomatic patients they have to be differentiated from fractures or can be the source of complaints by themselves.

Keywords

foot - variants - osteochondrosis - ossicles - coalition

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