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. 2015 Sep 15:2:2333794X15606840.
doi: 10.1177/2333794X15606840. eCollection 2015.

A Teenage Girl With Painful Walking and a Left Foot Mass

Shipra Gupta  1 , Amrit Misra  2 , Mahdi Alsaleem  2 , Nahed Abdel-Haq  1
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A Teenage Girl With Painful Walking and a Left Foot Mass

Shipra Gupta et al. Glob Pediatr Health. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Sagittal view of the left foot MRI showing a 3.3 × 2.4 × 3.7 cm complex mass dorsal to the metatarsals.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Sagittal view of the left foot MRI showing a 2.7 cm linear foreign body between the fourth and fifth metatarsals with intense surrounding inflammatory response.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Gram stain showing gram-positive beaded bacilli.
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