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Claude O. Burdick, MD
Valley Memorial Hospital Livermore, Calif

JAMA. 1981;245(8):823.

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To the Editor.—

Recently, as a pathologist, I received a small tissue specimen labeled "surfer's knot," taken from the ankle of a 16-year-old girl. In a neat example of role reversal, the surgeon explained to me that surfer's bumps develop on the dorsum of the ankles and shins of surfers because of kneeling on the rough surface of the board while waiting for a wave.

I searched the literature and found that several different conditions are called surfer's nodules or surfer's knots: (1) chip fractures of the small bones of the feet (1966;197:149); (2) hypertrophic "spurring" in the small joints of the ankle or foot (1966;197:149); (3) ulcers of the skin of the shins or ankles (1967;201:134); (4) nodules of traumatic fibrosis (1967;201:134; 1965;192:223); (5) ganglion cysts, once recorded with foreignbody reaction to sand (1967;201:134); and (6) bursal cysts.¹

Obviously, the lesion has been named by its . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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