I got one of my new publication alerts today and it was this:
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Microgeodic Disease Affecting the Toes in Athletes: A Report of 2 Cases
Kashiwa et al. Am J Sports Med.2008
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I had not heard of this before and was intrigued....unfortunatly the article is not available as full text to non-subscribers and there was no abstract. SO, i did a search and found these:
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Orthopedics & Traumatology
VOL.54;NO.1;PAGE.147-150(2005)
Microgeodic disease was first described by Moroteaux in 1970. We report a 7-year-old girl, who had swelling and redness in her right index, ring and left small fingers. Radiographs showed osteolytic lesion in the middle phalanges. Pathological fracture of the middle pharanx occurred in the right index six weeks after onset. Clinical symptoms and radio-graphic findings subsided in sixteen weeks. One year later she showed the same symptoms in her right middle finger. Due to spontaneous healing, prognosis is excellent for this disease. However, careful follow-up is necessary because pathological fractures, mal-alignment of fingers, and recurrence have been reported.
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Japanese Journal of Dermatology
VOL.114;NO.2;PAGE.169-172(2004)
A case of phalangeal microgeodic disease is reported. A 6-year-old-girl had chilblain-like symptoms, such as spindle-shaped swelling and redness on the left middle finger. This case was diagnosed as phalangeal microgeodic disease by the clinical manifestations and plain radiographic findings. At follow-up five months later, the swelling had almost resolved and only a deformity of the middle phalanx of the left middle finger was observed without any dysfunction. It is known that this disease is self-limiting and no therapy is needed. However epiphyseal damage has been reported in some cases. It is very important to follow up patients with this disease carefully
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