title: Osteochondroma of the sacrum with a correlative radiographic and histological evaluation.
abstract: Primary benign sacral tumors are rare representing only 1-4% of solitary exostoses and constituting 4% of all solitary spinal tumor. The tumor usually comes to attention in childhood or adolescence. The treatment of symptomatic lesions is resection. We present here a case of a sacral osteochondroma with characteristic histological and radiological features in an adolescent presenting with radicular pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MGIMS, Sevagram, India. dramit_in@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: Sankal P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Dwivedi
authors.forename: Rajnish
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Nitin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gangane
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology; D015831:Osteochondroma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D012447:Sacrum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*