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Clinical presentation:
Boy aged 7 years with pain and swelling in his right leg.

There is a patchy lytic lesion with some expansion of the lower section of the diaphysis of the left tibia. The endosteal margins of the lesion are ill-defined, having a wide zone of transition between normal and abnormal bone. There is an extensive lamellar periosteal reaction. This extends over the distal metaphysis and is particularly marked over the interosseus ligament, medial to the expanded diaphysis of the tibia. There is an additional patch of bone loss on the lateral side of the distal metaphysis. The epiphyseal plate seems preserved. There are two additional 'dark' lines of decreased radiodensity. These appear more pronounced than fat density and probably represent air from a previous biopsy. Variation of soft tissue density on the lateral side may be tortuous veins, related to the vascularity of this pathology.

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cases that might resemble this pathology

[View large image] Osteosarcoma. (case report) [View large image] Osteomyelitis.
[View large image] Stress fracture (case report), include healing Looser zones [View large image] Tuberculosis (case report)
[View large image] Eosinophil granuloma. (case report) Include hereditary disorders of mesenchymal tissue, and neurofibromatosis. [View large image] Fibrous dysplasia (case report).
[View large image] Haemangioma (case report), but unilateral. [View large image] Chondrosarcoma, but usually older. (case report) This and enchondroma are rare in this location.
[View large image] Osteoclastoma. (case reports) [View large image] Metastasis, (case report) is uncommon at this age.

There is no example of the rare Adamantinoma.

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IDM April 2007