Melorheostosis in the pediatric hand

It is important to consider the rare case of a melorheostosis in patients presenting with soft tissue swelling, joint contractures, and “dripping candle wax”‐like hyperostoses visible on hand radiographs. Clinical sequelae such as carpal tunnel syndrome or trigger finger have to be ruled out. Sympto...

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Autor principal: Farr, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2160
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description It is important to consider the rare case of a melorheostosis in patients presenting with soft tissue swelling, joint contractures, and “dripping candle wax”‐like hyperostoses visible on hand radiographs. Clinical sequelae such as carpal tunnel syndrome or trigger finger have to be ruled out. Symptomatic therapy is usually sufficient.
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spelling pubmed-65098932019-05-20 Melorheostosis in the pediatric hand Farr, Sebastian Clin Case Rep Clinical Images It is important to consider the rare case of a melorheostosis in patients presenting with soft tissue swelling, joint contractures, and “dripping candle wax”‐like hyperostoses visible on hand radiographs. Clinical sequelae such as carpal tunnel syndrome or trigger finger have to be ruled out. Symptomatic therapy is usually sufficient. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6509893/ /pubmed/31110758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2160 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509893/
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