1. Posttraumatic intramedullary osteochondroma: Report of a case
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John E. Madewell, Afranio dos Reis Teixeira Neto, Bryan S. Moon, Rajendra Kumar, and Michael T. Deavers
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Male ,musculoskeletal diseases ,Osteochondroma ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medullary cavity ,business.industry ,Radiography ,Bone Neoplasms ,Knee Injuries ,medicine.disease ,law.invention ,Surgery ,Benign tumor ,Intramedullary rod ,Young Adult ,Distal femur ,law ,Orthopedic surgery ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,business - Abstract
We present a rare osteochondroma, which instead of being the usual exophytic growth outside bone, grew inward into the medullary cavity of distal femur in a patient with prior trauma to his knee. Except for its intramedullary location, the benign tumor had all the classic radiographic and pathologic features of typical osteochondroma.
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- 2013
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