Imaging Pitfall in the Pediatric Knee: Irregular Epiphyseal Ossification at the Femoral Condyle

Abstract

Teaching point: Age-related variability in endochondral ossification of the femoral condyles in children is a normal variant of skeletal maturation and should not be misdiagnosed as osteochondritis dissecans or any other epiphyseal abnormality.

Keywords

• magnetic resonance imaging
• pediatrics
• osteogenesis
• femur
• epiphyses
• osteochondritis dissecans