Osteoid Osteoma of the Great Toe Mimicking Osteomyelitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Osteoid osteomas are well-known benign tumors, seen generally in long bones. When seen in phalanxes or toes, they can cause a diagnostic dilemma. A young male presented to us with complaints of enlargement of the great toe and severe pain. He had had an ingrown toe-nail operation before, and this si...

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Autores principales: Turkmen, Ismail, Alpan, Bugra, Soylemez, Salih, Ozkan, Feyza Unlu, Unay, Koray, Ozkan, Korhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3771467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24066250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/234048
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author Turkmen, Ismail
Alpan, Bugra
Soylemez, Salih
Ozkan, Feyza Unlu
Unay, Koray
Ozkan, Korhan
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Ozkan, Korhan
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description Osteoid osteomas are well-known benign tumors, seen generally in long bones. When seen in phalanxes or toes, they can cause a diagnostic dilemma. A young male presented to us with complaints of enlargement of the great toe and severe pain. He had had an ingrown toe-nail operation before, and this situation caused a diagnostic dilemma. In this case report, we emphasize that osteoid osteomas can cause diagnostic dilemmas and it should be kept in mind as a differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-37714672013-09-24 Osteoid Osteoma of the Great Toe Mimicking Osteomyelitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Turkmen, Ismail Alpan, Bugra Soylemez, Salih Ozkan, Feyza Unlu Unay, Koray Ozkan, Korhan Case Rep Orthop Case Report Osteoid osteomas are well-known benign tumors, seen generally in long bones. When seen in phalanxes or toes, they can cause a diagnostic dilemma. A young male presented to us with complaints of enlargement of the great toe and severe pain. He had had an ingrown toe-nail operation before, and this situation caused a diagnostic dilemma. In this case report, we emphasize that osteoid osteomas can cause diagnostic dilemmas and it should be kept in mind as a differential diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3771467/ /pubmed/24066250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/234048 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ismail Turkmen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Osteoid Osteoma of the Great Toe Mimicking Osteomyelitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
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title_short Osteoid Osteoma of the Great Toe Mimicking Osteomyelitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort osteoid osteoma of the great toe mimicking osteomyelitis: a case report and review of the literature
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/234048
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