Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

OSTEOCHONDROMA OF SCAPULA : A RARE CASE PRESENTATION

Prof. Dr. Kailash Sethi, Dr. Umang Sanghvi, Dr. Ravi Kumar

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 Osteochondroma arises as an aberrant abnormal outgrowth from the growth plate and is made up of both bone and cartilage. It is a common benign osseous tumour of long bone but it is rare in flat bone more so in scapula.

 

We present, a rare case of bony swelling in 10–year–old boy with complain of swelling in scapular region from last 4 months. It was a bony hard swelling situated on dorsal aspect of body of scapula. Excisional biopsy confirms the diagnosis of osteochondroma.

 

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PROF. DR. KAILASH SETHI, Dr. Umang Sanghvi, Dr. Ravi Kumar, OSTEOCHONDROMA OF SCAPULA : A RARE CASE PRESENTATION, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-4 | APRIL‾2017

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