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Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report

Presented here is a case of a young woman, with an undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine, which presented with painful scoliosis in adolescence and was treated by bracing until her accession to adulthood. A more thorough investigation, years after the initial one, revealed the tumor. Surgical exc...

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Autores principales: Sapkas, George, Efstathopoulos, Nicolas E, Papadakis, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19397810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-4-9