Keywords:
Developmental disease, Congenital, Contrast agent-intravenous, Conventional radiography, MR, CT, Musculoskeletal system, Musculoskeletal bone, Anatomy
Authors:
S. Daineffe1, B. G. H. G. Pilet2, S. Van de Perre3, E. De Smet4, M. Smets1, F. M. H. M. Vanhoenacker5; 1Vilvoorde/BE, 2Aalst/BE, 3Mol/BE, 4Mechelen/BE, 5Antwerp, Ghent, Mechelen/BE
DOI:
10.1594/essr2013/P-0023
Methods and Materials
From the database of the AZ Jan Portaels (Vilvoorde,
Belgium),
OLV Hospital Aalst-Asse-Ninove (Aalst,
Asse,
and Ninove,
Belgium),
AZ Erica (Mol and Geel,
Belgium),
and AZ Sint-Maarten (Duffel and Mechelen,
Belgium),
we retrospectively reviewed 121 patients,
treated in the 8-year period between 2005 and 2013,
for variations in the osseous anatomy of ankle and foot.
53 of the study patients were male,
68 were female.
In 75 patients,
the same variant occurred bilaterally.
Of almost all ankles and feet,
plain films were at our disposal.
98 patients underwent an MR examination,
and in 43 patients,
a CT examination was performed; only 12 patients were examined using doppler US.
CT and MRI were performed bilaterally in 36 patients.
We divided all cases into 12 separate entities,
each representing a specific osseous variant.
Next,
a review of the literature was performed,
in order to document each variant,
and provide an overview of the most recent information on symptoms and imaging.
Please find our results,
presented as a pictorial review,
in the Results section.