Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Sesamoids are ovoid bones with variable size and shape in the course of tendons, can be found in different parts of skeletal system. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of 61-year-old woman in whom we observed a large accessory bone located in the anterior aspect of the left ankle join...

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Autores principales: Salekzamani, Yaghoub, Shakeri-Bavil, Abolhassan, Nezami, Nariman, Houshyar, Yousef
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918378
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8512
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author Salekzamani, Yaghoub
Shakeri-Bavil, Abolhassan
Nezami, Nariman
Houshyar, Yousef
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Nezami, Nariman
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description INTRODUCTION: Sesamoids are ovoid bones with variable size and shape in the course of tendons, can be found in different parts of skeletal system. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of 61-year-old woman in whom we observed a large accessory bone located in the anterior aspect of the left ankle joint. Since such accessory bones are found very infrequently, their presence may cause some diagnostic confusion. CONCLUSION: Regarding complaints in foot area one has to be familiar with such bones in order to make a correct diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-27694482009-11-16 Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report Salekzamani, Yaghoub Shakeri-Bavil, Abolhassan Nezami, Nariman Houshyar, Yousef Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Sesamoids are ovoid bones with variable size and shape in the course of tendons, can be found in different parts of skeletal system. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of 61-year-old woman in whom we observed a large accessory bone located in the anterior aspect of the left ankle joint. Since such accessory bones are found very infrequently, their presence may cause some diagnostic confusion. CONCLUSION: Regarding complaints in foot area one has to be familiar with such bones in order to make a correct diagnosis. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2769448/ /pubmed/19918378 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8512 Text en © 2009 Salekzamani et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Salekzamani, Yaghoub
Shakeri-Bavil, Abolhassan
Nezami, Nariman
Houshyar, Yousef
Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title_full Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title_fullStr Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title_short Ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
title_sort ankle patella: a report of a large accessory bone in the ankle: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918378
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8512
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