
Bifocal parosteal osteoma of femur: A case report and review of literature
Author(s) -
Raffaele Vitiello,
Tommaso Greco,
Luigi Cianni,
Silvia Careri,
Maria Serena Oliva,
Marco Gessi,
Ivan De Martino,
Maria Beatrice Bocchi,
Giulio Maccauro,
Carlo Perisano
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
orthopedic reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.412
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2035-8237
pISSN - 2035-8164
DOI - 10.4081/or.2020.8673
Subject(s) - osteoma , medicine , femur , asymptomatic , lesion , radiography , radiology , surgery
Osteoma is a benign, slowly growing, asymptomatic, bone-forming tumor arising from cancellous or compact bone. Osteoma usually is a solitary lesion, but in patients with Gardner’s Syndrome it may be multiple. osteoma may rarely have a parosteal localization. Parosteal osteoma has peculiar radiographic, histologic and clinical features. We describe a case report of a 51- years old man with a bifocal parosteal osteoma of the femur in a non-syndromic patient. This is the first described patient with a bifocal lesion. In literature only 24 cases of paraosteal osteoma are found. Our patient underwent surgery and the lesions were fully excised. At one year follow-up there was no evidence of recurrence.