Osteoid osteoma of the radial styloid mimicking de quervain tenosynovitis.
A very unusual location of osteoid osteoma arising in the radial styloid is presented, which strongly mimicked de Quervain tenosynovitis, thereby resulting in the patient undergoing an additional unnecessary operation and a substantial delay of more than 2 years in diagnosis.
Chloros
George D
GD
First Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. gchlorosdoc@gmail.com
Themistocleous
George S
GS
Papagelopoulos
Panayiotis J
PJ
Khaldi
Lubna
L
Efstathopoulos
Dimitrios G
DG
Soucacos
Panayotis N
PN
D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D053684:De Quervain Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010017:Osteoma, Osteoid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011884:Radius / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures