1. Synchronous Multiple Ossifying Tumors of the Digits
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Yuichiro Fukazawa, Kazuhiko Hirachi, Yohei Hamade, Takaya Fukumoto, Mitsuru Yanai, Satoko Shimizu, Takashi Anan, Nobuki Miyamoto, Reine Moriuchi, and Toshinari Miyauchi
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Subcutaneous calcification ,Radiography ,Bone Neoplasms ,Physical examination ,Fingers ,Heart Neoplasms ,Neoplasms, Multiple Primary ,030207 dermatology & venereal diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physiology (medical) ,medicine ,Humans ,Blood test ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Cartilage ,Myxoma ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Subcutaneous nodule ,Radiology ,Left Atrial Myxoma ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
A 32-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with a 5-month history of painful nodules on the fingers. He had previously developed left atrial myxoma followed by cerebral embolism and had undergone resection of the cardiac tumor 4 months before his first visit. His family history was unremarkable. Physical examination showed subcutaneous nodules 4 to 17 mm in size on all finger pads (Figure 1A and 1B). The tumors were smooth and as hard as cartilage. Hand radiographs showed irregularly shaped subcutaneous calcification corresponding to the nodules (Figure 2), and postoperative examination of the 3-dimensional computed tomographic reconstruction indicated the tumors more clearly (Figure 3). Physical examination and diagnostic imaging detected no tumors in other sites, including the lower extremities. The blood test results, including endocrine examination, were unremarkable. Figure 1. Subcutaneous nodules on all finger pads: the left …
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- 2016
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