Display options
Cite
Schapiro A, Laor T. 'Soccer toe': Chronic physeal injury of the great toe metatarsal in a skeletally immature child - A case report. SA J Radiol. 2020;24(1):1834doi: 10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834.
Schapiro, A., & Laor, T. (2020). 'Soccer toe': Chronic physeal injury of the great toe metatarsal in a skeletally immature child - A case report. SA journal of radiology, 24(1), 1834. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834
Schapiro, Andrew, and Laor, Tal. "'Soccer toe': Chronic physeal injury of the great toe metatarsal in a skeletally immature child - A case report." SA journal of radiology vol. 24,1 (2020): 1834. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834
Schapiro A, Laor T. 'Soccer toe': Chronic physeal injury of the great toe metatarsal in a skeletally immature child - A case report. SA J Radiol. 2020 Apr 22;24(1):1834. doi: 10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32391179; PMCID: PMC7203536.
Copy Download .nbib Format: NLM
Share it on

SA J Radiol. 2020 Apr 22;24(1):1834. doi: 10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834. eCollection 2020.

'Soccer toe': Chronic physeal injury of the great toe metatarsal in a skeletally immature child - A case report.

SA journal of radiology

Andrew Schapiro, Tal Laor

Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America.
  2. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America.

PMID: 32391179 PMCID: PMC7203536 DOI: 10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1834

Abstract

Chronic physeal stress injuries in children can result from ongoing, repetitive compression, distraction and/or shear forces during sports-related activity, and manifest as physeal widening on imaging. We present an 11-year-old soccer athlete with focal physeal widening of her great toe metatarsal and postulate that ongoing or repetitive stress from soccer play may manifest as this imaging appearance. We suggest that recognition of this entity in growing children might explain pain, if present, and guide conservative treatment.

© 2020. The Authors.

Keywords: Growth plate; MRI; Musculoskeletal imaging; Physis; Sports medicine; Stress; Toe

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

References

  1. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1994 Sep;76(5):837-43 - PubMed
  2. Br J Sports Med. 1980 Jul;14(2-3):110-3 - PubMed
  3. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2019 May 1;14(5):551-562 - PubMed
  4. Acta Orthop Scand. 1993 Aug;64(4):449-55 - PubMed
  5. Clin J Sport Med. 2010 Mar;20(2):132 - PubMed
  6. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008 Jun;190(6):1487-91 - PubMed
  7. Pediatr Radiol. 2009 Dec;39(12):1286-98 - PubMed
  8. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006 May;186(5):1260-4 - PubMed
  9. Br J Sports Med. 2006 Sep;40(9):749-60 - PubMed
  10. Am J Sports Med. 2016 Feb;44(2):309-17 - PubMed

Publication Types