A case report of osteochondroma with unusual clinical and imaging presentation

Osteochondroma or exostosis is a bony developmental anomaly, which arises from exophytic outgrowth on bone surfaces in a characteristic manner. Osteochondroma is asymptomatic and grows away from the nearby joint. This paper reports an unusual presentation of osteochondroma in which the patient was s...

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Autores principales: Javdan, Mohammad, Hekmatnia, Ali, Ghazavi, Amirhossein, Basiratnia, Reza, Mehrzad, Mansour, Hekmatnia, Farzaneh, Ahrar, Hossein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625108
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.148258
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Sumario:Osteochondroma or exostosis is a bony developmental anomaly, which arises from exophytic outgrowth on bone surfaces in a characteristic manner. Osteochondroma is asymptomatic and grows away from the nearby joint. This paper reports an unusual presentation of osteochondroma in which the patient was surprisingly completely symptomatic. The lesion grew toward the nearby joint and the radiographic findings were not compatible with surgical findings

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