Computed tomography of solitary spinal osteochondromas.
Solitary osteochondromas rarely occur in the axial skeleton. These benign tumors may cause a variety of symptoms while remaining difficult to recognize by plain radiographic and myelographic studies. We present three cases of solitary osteochondromas of the spine and demonstrate the CT findings of these unusual tumors.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002812:Chondroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed