Large Bursitis Associated With Osteochondroma Of Fibula Presenting As A Mass Lesion: A Case Report

Year 2002, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 33 - 35, 01.08.2002

Kutsi Köseoğlu Yelda Özsunar Alev Akdilli Füsun Taşkın

Abstract

The complications of solitary osteochondroma can be listed as fracture of the bony stalk, mass effect and nerve impingement syndromes. The other rare complications are malignant transformation and bursitis. Symptomatic patients with osteochondroma must be investigated for malignant transformation. A patient with pain and mass on the right cruris was examined and fibular osteochondroma associated with bursitis was found on MR examination. In this report clinical and MR findings of solitary osteochondroma with bursitis are discussed.

Keywords

osteochondroma, bursitis, MR

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