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Symmetrical fibro‐osseous dysplasia of rib–post‐traumatic dysplasia?
Author(s) -
KANDEL R. A.,
PRITZKER K. P. H.,
BEDARD Y. C.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.1981.tb01831.x
Subject(s) - fibrous dysplasia , calcification , medicine , rib cage , dysplasia , anatomy , pathology , cancellous bone , radiography , cortex (anatomy) , radiology , biology , neuroscience
We describe two patients with a distinctive histological condition which clinically and radiologically mimics fibrous dysplasia of the rib. Both patients presented with chronic pain confined to one rib. In each case their radiographs showed a solitary, fusiform expansion of a rib with variable calcification. Histologically the lesions were characterized by a central core of xanthomatous macrophages surrounded by cancellous bone that showed symmetrical and progressive maturation centrifugally towards the cortex, a pattern which distinguishes these lesions from the irregular pattern of fibrous dysplasia.