Maffucci’s Syndrome or a Variant?

Maffucci’s syndrome is a rare non hereditary disorder characterized by multiple enchondromas and haemangiomas. A 12 year old boy presented with a painful swelling at his right hand and deformed left upper limb. On detailed workup, he was found to have multiple enchondromas involving long bones and a...

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Autores principales: Khan, Yousuf Aziz, Ahmad, Soofia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040593
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description Maffucci’s syndrome is a rare non hereditary disorder characterized by multiple enchondromas and haemangiomas. A 12 year old boy presented with a painful swelling at his right hand and deformed left upper limb. On detailed workup, he was found to have multiple enchondromas involving long bones and a single haemangioma. A diagnosis of Maffucci’s syndrome was established. The clinical features and workup of the disease in our patient is reported.
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spelling pubmed-37544002013-09-13 Maffucci’s Syndrome or a Variant? Khan, Yousuf Aziz Ahmad, Soofia APSP J Case Rep Case Report Maffucci’s syndrome is a rare non hereditary disorder characterized by multiple enchondromas and haemangiomas. A 12 year old boy presented with a painful swelling at his right hand and deformed left upper limb. On detailed workup, he was found to have multiple enchondromas involving long bones and a single haemangioma. A diagnosis of Maffucci’s syndrome was established. The clinical features and workup of the disease in our patient is reported. EL-MED-Pub 2013-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3754400/ /pubmed/24040593 Text en Copyright © 2013 Khan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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