The pelvic digit “eleventh finger”

Described as asymptomatic and an incidental finding on a plain x-ray film, the “pelvic digit” is a rare congenital anomaly. A 35-year-old man is of a rare symptomatic pelvic digit that warranted surgical excision. Its importance lies in its differentiation from acquired abnormalities due to trauma s...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Vivek, Thakur, Ajay Singh, Acharya, Kiran KV, Rao, P Sripathi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753190
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.45332
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author Pandey, Vivek
Thakur, Ajay Singh
Acharya, Kiran KV
Rao, P Sripathi
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description Described as asymptomatic and an incidental finding on a plain x-ray film, the “pelvic digit” is a rare congenital anomaly. A 35-year-old man is of a rare symptomatic pelvic digit that warranted surgical excision. Its importance lies in its differentiation from acquired abnormalities due to trauma such as myositis ossificans and avulsion injuries of pelvis. If this entity is kept in mind, unnecessary investigations or interventions can be avoided.
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spelling pubmed-27394872009-09-14 The pelvic digit “eleventh finger” Pandey, Vivek Thakur, Ajay Singh Acharya, Kiran KV Rao, P Sripathi Indian J Orthop Case Report Described as asymptomatic and an incidental finding on a plain x-ray film, the “pelvic digit” is a rare congenital anomaly. A 35-year-old man is of a rare symptomatic pelvic digit that warranted surgical excision. Its importance lies in its differentiation from acquired abnormalities due to trauma such as myositis ossificans and avulsion injuries of pelvis. If this entity is kept in mind, unnecessary investigations or interventions can be avoided. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2739487/ /pubmed/19753190 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.45332 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short The pelvic digit “eleventh finger”
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