So in this post I am looking at a relevant journal articles
that I have been informed about over the last week whilst I was on honeymoon. I
am slightly annoyed as it was really hard for me to gain access to this article
and there are two more that I want to look at and either I cannot get them yet
I am a likely to never be able to. Still I will do what I can from the abstract
and see what happens from there.
Title: Plantar and palmar fibromatosis: Characteristic
imaging features and role of MRI in clinical management.
Authors : Collette English, Robert Coughlan, John Carey and
Diane Bergin.
Radiology Department and Rheumatology Department, Galway
University Hospitals, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland. Correspondence to:
Collette English E-mail: colletteenglish@gmail.com.
This article is a letter to the Journal Rheumatology and I
shall try to just give an overview in as simple terms as possible what new
things I have learnt from this. One thing I am going to note straight away is
that they state that plantar fibromatosis (PF) is rare. They are looking at a
single patient with bilaterial PF with a family history of Dupuytren’s disease
(DD) and she was starting to show symptoms of DD. The DD was treated surgically
but the PF was left alone as it was asymptomatic. They go on to say that they
think that MRI is the best way to measure the extent of the lumps and that it
should be used as a diagnostic aid.
I guess that is it really, there is not a lot of useful
information that I can get from that other than what I already knew.
I will look at the others when I get the chance, for those
interested I am intending to look at:
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