Bunion-Like Toes and Tumor Like Swellings " Recognize FOP and Improve Patient Outcomes in the Era of Disease Specific Therapy

Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of healthcare providers in pediatrics, primary care, oncology, surgery, radiology, acute care, emergency medicine, rheumatology, and infectious disease.

Program Overview
Bunion-like toes present at birth and tumor-like swellings in a young child are diagnostic signs of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP), a disease with recent advances made in therapy. Upon completion of the course, learners should be able to associate great toe deformities with FOP and avoid misdiagnosing FOP as soft tissue sarcoma. Biopsy for “tumor” should be avoided in FOP.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

Recognize that great toe deformities and soft tissue swellings are diagnostic signs for FOP.
Add FOP to the differential diagnosis for tumors and avoid biopsy in suspected cases.
Manage and treat FOP in the era of disease specific therapies.