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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 78:1172-80 (1996)
© 1996 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Osteoma of the Long Bones and the Spine. A Study of Eleven Patients and a Review of the Literature*

AMOS B. PEYSER, M.D.{dagger}, JOHN T. MAKLEY, M.D.{dagger}, CRAIG C. CALLEWART, M.D.{ddagger}, BESS BRACKETT, M.D.{ddagger}, JOHN R. CARTER, M.D.{dagger} and FADI W. ABDUL-KARIM, M.D.{dagger}, CLEVELAND, OHIO

Investigation performed at the Departments of Orthopaedics and Pathology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland

The clinical features, radiographic and histopathological findings, treatment, and results are described for eleven patients who were managed for an extracranial osteoma at our medical center between 1980 and 1993. Ten of the patients were initially seen because of dull, aching bone pain that had been present for two weeks to thirty years. Radiographs demonstrated single or multiple homogeneous, well defined, radiodense foci with smooth round or lobulated margins. The histopathological features consistently included uniformly dense, compact, cortical-like, mature lamellar bone. The preoperative diagnosis was unclear for all patients, and osteoma was rarely considered in the differential diagnosis. For four patients, a tentative diagnosis of osteosarcoma was made, and a wide excision was carried out in two of these patients. Marginal excision with less than three millimeters of normal tissue around the lesion was performed in most patients. None of the osteomas recurred, and ten patients had relief of the pain. Awareness of the clinical, radiographic, and histopathological features of osteoma, as described, is valuable for making a differential diagnosis and for distinguishing osteomas from other lesions.


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