Unusual muscle variant in the differential diagnosis of a soft tissue tumor

Dähnert, W.; Ahlers, J.; Rudigier, J.

Rontgen-Blatter; Zeitschrift für Rontgen-Technik und Medizinisch-Wissenschaftliche Photographie 36(12): 425-427

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8592
PMID: 6669894
Document Number: 215566
A rare variant of the plantar muscle is the formation of a good-sized muscle-belly in the lower third of the lower leg. This venter distalis m. plantaris may be wrongly diagnosed, both clinically and by computed tomography, as a soft tissue tumour if it occurs unilaterally.

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