Solitary Sessile Osteochondroma
of Scapula, A Rare Case Report
Published: March 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.4156
Yashavantha Kumar C, Satish Shervegar , Daksh Gadi, Rahul P
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, M S R Medical College, Bangalore, India.
2. Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, M S R Medical College, Bangalore, India.
3. Junior Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, M S R Medical College, Bangalore, India.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, M S R Medical College, Bangalore, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Yashavantha Kumar C,
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, M S R Medical College, Bangalore, India.
Phone: 919663581868, E-mail: kumyshwanth@gmail.com
Osteochondromas are the most common benign tumours of bone. These are most commonly seen on the metaphysis of a long bone, but they can arise from any bone which is preformed from cartilage. To best of our knowledge, very few cases of osteochondroma scapula have been reported in literature. We hereby report a very rare case of osteochondroma which arose from scapula in a four year old boy, which was treated by excisional biopsy.
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