1. [An adolescent man with pain at night in his lower right leg].
- Author
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Furda DD, van Jonbergen JPW, and Westerbeek RE
- Subjects
- Adult, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal therapeutic use, Bone Neoplasms pathology, Bone Neoplasms therapy, Humans, Lower Extremity, Male, Osteoma, Osteoid pathology, Osteoma, Osteoid therapy, Pain drug therapy, Pain etiology, Sclerosis, Soft Tissue Neoplasms pathology, Soft Tissue Neoplasms therapy, Tomography, X-Ray Computed methods, Young Adult, Bone Neoplasms diagnosis, Leg pathology, Osteoma, Osteoid diagnosis, Pain diagnosis, Soft Tissue Neoplasms diagnosis, Tibia pathology
- Abstract
A 22-year-old man is referred to the orthopaedic surgeon. He has pain, mostly at night, in his proximal right tibia that greatly reduces with NSAIDs. The CT scan shows a focal lucent zone, called a nidus, in the tibia cortex, surrounded by reactive, sclerotic bone. This is typical for an osteoid osteoma, a benign bone tumour.
- Published
- 2020