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Clinical presentation:
Adult male, whose finger was X-rayed after a laceration. We don't know his job, but assume it was as a tailor.

There is a central very well defined, cyst-like lesion with some expansion of the terminal phalanx of the left index finger.

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cases that might resemble this pathology

[View large image] Enchondroma. (case report) [View large image] Sarcoid (case report)
[View large image] Hyperparathyroidism. (case report) [View large image] Gout (case report)
[View large image] Tuberculosis. (case report) [View large image] Haemangioma (case report)
There is no example of Glomus tumour.
Histiocytosis X, Lytic metastasis and myelomatosis are not common in the hands, but are listed, for completeness.
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IDM May 2007