Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1969;51:1199-1204.
© 1969 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
An Unusual Sarcoma Arising in a Solitary Osteochondroma
RUSSELL L. ANDERSON JR. M.D.1,
LEONARD POPOWITZ M.D.1, and
JOHN K. H. LI M.D.1
1 From the Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Department of Pathology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, and Montefiore-Morrisania Hospital Affiliation, Bronx
A case is presented of a sarcoma arising from a solitary osteochondroma of six years duration, in a eighteen-year-old woman.
Attention is brought to the rarity of malignant lesions arising within solitary osteochondromas.