Magnetic resonance imaging of a case of monomelic macrodystrophia lipomatosa

Australas Radiol. 2007 Dec:51 Suppl:B227-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2007.01822.x.

Abstract

Macrodystrophia lipomatosa is a rare form of non-hereditary congenital localized gigantism. Radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging of one such case in a 3-year-old girl is presented in which the entire right-lower limb was affected. Radiographs revealed excessive soft tissue hypertrophy and exostoses-like bony overgrowth from the metatarsals. Magnetic resonance images showed excess unencapsulated fatty proliferation and fatty infiltration of the involved muscles.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Gigantism / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Lipomatosis / diagnosis*
  • Lower Extremity Deformities, Congenital / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*