An Unusual Presentation of Osteochondroma in a Sexagenarian

Osteochondroma is the most commonly-found benign bone tumour. It is a benign, cartilaginous-capped bony projection. They are usually present on the bony surfaces of the long bones in adolescents and young adults. The risk of malignant transformation is <1% with solitary osteochondroma. We present...

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Autores principales: Baig, MN, Auckloo, Rajnita, Baig, Usman, Kearns, S.R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375954
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1868
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author Baig, MN
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description Osteochondroma is the most commonly-found benign bone tumour. It is a benign, cartilaginous-capped bony projection. They are usually present on the bony surfaces of the long bones in adolescents and young adults. The risk of malignant transformation is <1% with solitary osteochondroma. We present a rare case of an osteochondroma in a patient with advanced age and an unusual location.
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spelling pubmed-57732702018-01-28 An Unusual Presentation of Osteochondroma in a Sexagenarian Baig, MN Auckloo, Rajnita Baig, Usman Kearns, S.R. Cureus Orthopedics Osteochondroma is the most commonly-found benign bone tumour. It is a benign, cartilaginous-capped bony projection. They are usually present on the bony surfaces of the long bones in adolescents and young adults. The risk of malignant transformation is <1% with solitary osteochondroma. We present a rare case of an osteochondroma in a patient with advanced age and an unusual location. Cureus 2017-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5773270/ /pubmed/29375954 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1868 Text en Copyright © 2017, Baig 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 author and source are credited.
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