Sonography of plantar fibromatosis

✍ Scribed by Mark Reed; Gretchen A. W. Gooding; Suzanne M. Kerley; Melanie S. Himebaugh-Reed; Virginia J. Griswold

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 614 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870190912

✦ Synopsis

This report describes the first sonographic description of plantar fibromatosis of the foot in the ultrasound literature. It defines how ultrasound was used to determine the extent of the mass and how it may have potential to detect recurrence.

The French surgeon Dupuytren, in 1832, was the first to identify the palmar aponeurosis as the affected structure in contractures of the hand and was the first to describe an associated foot condition involving the plantar fascia.' Plantar fibromatosis, which has been reported to affect 1% to 2% of the general population,2 has also From the Departments of