Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia with Epiphyseal Involvement in Long Bones: a Case Report

Overview

Journal Case Rep Orthop

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2013 May 22

PMID 23691394

Citations 3

Authors

Tomoaki Fukui

Teruya Kawamoto

Toshiaki Hitora

Yoshiki Yamagami

Toshihiro Akisue

Tetsuji Yamamoto

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Abstract

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is an uncommon, but well-known benign skeletal disorder. In cases affecting long bones, FD is commonly recognized to locate in the diaphyses or the metaphyses and to spare the epiphyses. In this paper, we present a rare case of polyostotic FD in a 13-year-old girl with unilateral multiple epiphyseal lesions arising in the femur, the tibia, and the fibula with the growth plates.

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