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A Non-ossifying Fibroma and a Stress Fracture of the Femur Mimicking Bone Malignancy in a Child

Herein, we report a rare case of a stress fracture through a pre-existing non-ossifying fibroma (NOF) of the femur of a 12-year-old child that raised suspicion of a malignancy. Although NOFs are very frequent, in the vast majority of cases, they are completely asymptomatic. When encountered in a pai...

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Autores principales: Slavchev, Svetoslav A, Georgiev, Georgi P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32411553
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7652

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