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01-06-2015 | Case Report
Osteoid Osteoma of the Metacarpal—A Case Report
Authors:
Prince Gupta, R. Rammohan, Lalit Maini, Virender Kumar Gautam, Nita Khurana
Published in:
Journal of Hand and Microsurgery
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Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Osteoid osteoma is a primary benign, bone forming tumor of the growing skeleton. It was first described in 1935 by Jaffe [
1]. Osteoid osteomas constitute 10 % of benign bone tumors and is usually seen in the first two decades of life [
2]. Osteoid osteoma was reported to usually affect long tubular bones [
3]. With only 6 to 13 % of osteoid steomas affecting hand and wrist region, it may be missed at initial physical and radiological evaluation [
4,
5]. A review of literature revealed that a few cases of metacarpal osteoid osteoma have been reported. Here we present a rare case of osteoid osteoma of metacarpal bone in a young patient. …