Adventitious bursitis in the plantar fat pad of forefoot presenting as a tumoral mass.

Adventitious bursitis of the plantar fat pad is a common cause of forefoot pain. It may develop at sites where subcutaneous tissue is exposed to friction and high pressure. In the forefoot, adventitious bursitis is usually adjacent to bony prominences of the metatarsal heads.

Is pain duration associated with morphologic changes of osteoid osteomas at CT?

Purpose: To assess the morphologic changes of osteoid osteomas on computed tomographic (CT) scans in association with pain duration.

Materials And Methods: Institutional review board approval was obtained. Informed consent was waived.

Tibial hyperostosis: a diagnostic approach.

Tibial hyperostosis may be encountered in musculoskeletal imaging, incidentally or during the investigation of a leg pain. Hyperostosis involves the exuberant production of osseous tissue and results in cortical, periosteal and/or endosteal thickening of the bone. As a long bone with thick cortices, the tibia has a significant probability of being affected by ubiquitous bone diseases.

A ganglion of the patellar tendon in patellar tendon-lateral femoral condyle friction syndrome.

Intratendinous ganglia are rare. We report the case of a sedentary woman with chronic mechanical anterolateral pain of the knee and an extensive ganglion of the patellar tendon as indicated on magnetic resonance (MR) and ultrasound (US) examinations. There was evidence of a high-riding patella, patellar malalignment and patellar tendon-lateral femoral condyle friction syndrome with significantly close contact between the patellar tendon and the lateral facet of the femoral trochlea.