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01-03-2012 | Case Reports
Synovial chondromatosis in a child’s thumb: a case report and review of the literature
Authors:
Hilton P. Gottschalk, Robert Newbury, C. Doug Wallace
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Primary synovial chondromatosis consists of cartilaginous metaplasia of the synovium, which leads to the production of intra-articular and periarticular osteocartilaginous bodies [
8,
12,
18,
19]. The nomenclature has evolved with time to include chondromatosis of the joint capsule, diffuse enchondroma of the joint capsule, joint chondroma, synovial osteochondromatosis, and synovial chondromatosis [
8,
9,
16,
18,
20]. Primary synovial chondromatosis most commonly occurs in young and middle-aged adults and is rarely found in children (youngest patient reported was 14 years old) [
12,
19]. The entity usually involves the synovium of large joints (knee, hip, elbow, and shoulder) [
3,
8,
15,
16,
18,
19,
26] but has been reported in the hand [
2,
10‐
12,
20,
26]. To our knowledge, only two cases have been reported in the interphalangeal joint of the thumb [
13,
14]. We report on a 13-year-old female with primary synovial chondromatosis of the inter-phalangeal (IP) joint of her thumb. …
