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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Case Report
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
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author Sapkas, George
Efstathopoulos, Nicolas E
Papadakis, Michael
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Papadakis, Michael
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description 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 excision and stabilization offered the long-awaited cure. Misdiagnosis resulted in intractable pain for years, deformity, the discomfort of brace therapy, and the frustration of a prolonged yet ineffective treatment.
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spelling pubmed-26803922009-05-12 Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report Sapkas, George Efstathopoulos, Nicolas E Papadakis, Michael Scoliosis 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 excision and stabilization offered the long-awaited cure. Misdiagnosis resulted in intractable pain for years, deformity, the discomfort of brace therapy, and the frustration of a prolonged yet ineffective treatment. BioMed Central 2009-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2680392/ /pubmed/19397810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-4-9 Text en Copyright © 2009 Sapkas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sapkas, George
Efstathopoulos, Nicolas E
Papadakis, Michael
Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title_full Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title_fullStr Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title_short Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
title_sort undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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
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