Small sharp exostosis tip in solitary osteochondroma causing intermittent knee pain due to pseudoaneurysm
Background: Complications of solitary or multiple osteochondromas are rare but have been reported in recent literature. Most reported complications arose in patients with multiple and/or sizable osteochondromas. Case presentation: A 22-year-old, female, Caucasian patient with obesity presented with...
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FB/Einrichtung: | FB 05: Medizinische Fakultät |
Dokumenttypen: | Artikel |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 21.02.2014 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 22.01.2020 |
Angaben zur Ausgabe: | [Electronic ed.] |
Quelle: | BMC Research Notes 6 (2013) 142 |
Schlagwörter: | Osteochondroma; Pseudoaneurysm; Complication |
Fachgebiet (DDC): | 610: Medizin und Gesundheit |
Lizenz: | CC BY 2.0 |
Sprache: | English |
Anmerkungen: | Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2013/2014 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster). |
Format: | PDF-Dokument |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-24319537943 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-142 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-24319537943 |
Onlinezugriff: | 1756-0500-6-142.pdf |
Background: Complications of solitary or multiple osteochondromas are rare but have been reported in recent literature. Most reported complications arose in patients with multiple and/or sizable osteochondromas. Case presentation: A 22-year-old, female, Caucasian patient with obesity presented with intermittent knee pain and hematoma of the right calf. The MRI depicted a small, sharp exostosis tip of the dorsal distal femur with a surrounding soft-tissue mass. After profuse bleeding occurred during biopsy of the soft tissue mass, angiography revealed a pseudoaneurysm of the right popliteal artery. In a second-stage surgery the exostosis tip and pseudoaneurysm were resected. Conclusion: Complications can also arise in small, seemingly harmless osteochondromas. Surgical resection should be considered as a preventive measure when exostoses form sharp tips close to neurovascular structures regardless of total osteochondroma size.