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Latissimus Dorsi Tendinosis and Tear: Imaging Features of a Pseudotumor of the Upper Limb in Five Patients

¹ Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.
² Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Orthopedic Oncology, The Permanent Medical Group, South San Francisco, CA.
⁴ Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to determine the imaging appearances of a pseudotumor of the upper limb, latissimus dorsi tendinosis and tear, in five patients and to correlate those imaging findings with clinical history and histopathology.

CONCLUSION. Tears or reactive tendinosis of the latissimus dorsi tendon at its insertion on the proximal humerus may present as a pseudotumor. Awareness of the imaging findings may allow accurate diagnosis and conservative management.

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