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01-10-2018 | Test Yourself: Answer
Bilateral painful foot masses
Authors:
Neil V. Shah, Natasha Ahmed, Prateek Baghel, Srinivas Kolla, Aditya V. Maheshwari
Published in:
Skeletal Radiology
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Issue 10/2018
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Excerpt
The soft tissue fullness that was found bilaterally at the dorsolateral midfoot, 8.0 × 5.0 cm on the right and 6.0 × 4.0 cm on the left, demonstrated hypertrophied extensor digitorum brevis (EDB) bilaterally with normal muscle architecture and signal, right greater than left. This patient underwent staged debulking of EDB and extensor halluces brevis (EHB). Macroscopically, the masses appeared as normal muscle fibers; histopathology revealed hypertrophy muscle fibers. At 3-year follow-up, the patient was symptom-free with normal gait. …