The British Journal of Rheumatology, Vol 37, 1243-1246, Copyright © 1998 by British Society for Rheumatology
JF Nisolle, Y Boutsen, J Legaye, E Bodart, JM Parmentier and W Esselinckx
Lipoma arborescens is a villous lipomatous proliferation of the synovial
membrane characterized by chronic and painless synovial effusion. The
aetiology is unknown. It has to be included in the differential diagnosis
of chronic monoarticular disease in childhood. Magnetic resonance imaging
provides a highly efficient tool for the diagnosis of this very rare
condition. This is indeed the fourth paediatric case reported. Rather than
resorting to the often inconvenient surgical synovectomy commonly
recommended, we chose to treat the knee of this 13-yr-old boy with
intra-articular osmic acid.
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Monoarticular chronic synovitis in a child
Department of Radiology, Louvain University (UCL) Hospital in Mont- Godinne, Belgium.
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