Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Osteoid osteoma of a metacarpal bone: a case report and review of the literature | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Osteoid osteoma of a metacarpal bone a case report and review of the literature Efstathios Chronopoulos Fragiskos N Xypnitos Vassilios S Nikolaou Nicolas Efstathopoulos and Dimitrios Korres Address 2nd Orthopedic Department Konstantopoulion Hospital Athens University Nea Ionia Greece Email Efstathios Chronopoulos - bniko@ Fragiskos N Xypnitos - frankxypnitos@ Vassilios S Nikolaou - Nicolas Efstathopoulos - bniko@ Dimitrios Korres - dkorres@ Corresponding author Published 27 August 2008 Received I January 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 285 doi 1752-1947-2-285 Accepted 27 August 2008 This article is available from http content 2 I 285 2008 Chronopoulos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Osteoid osteoma is a benign tumor of the growing skeleton. It presents with pain which is usually worse at night. The radiographic features consist of a central oval or round nidus surrounded first by a radiolucent area followed by another area of sclerotic bone. In the hand osteoid osteoma is more commonly located in the phalanges and carpal bones. The metacarpals are the least common sites for osteoid osteoma. Case presentation We present a case of an osteoid osteoma of the left third metacarpal bone in a 36-year-old woman. The clinical and radiographic findings along with the surgical management of the lesion are presented. The pain disappeared immediately after the operation. At the 2-year follow-up the patient was pain-free and there was no .
