title: Undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine presenting as painful scoliosis from adolescence to adulthood: a case report.
abstract: Presented here is a case of a young woman, with an undiagnosed osteoid osteoma of the spine, which presented with painful scoliosis in adolescence and was treated by bracing until her accession to adulthood. A more thorough investigation, years after the initial one, revealed the tumor. Surgical excision and stabilization offered the long-awaited cure. Misdiagnosis resulted in intractable pain for years, deformity, the discomfort of brace therapy, and the frustration of a prolonged yet ineffective treatment.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Haidari, Greece.|Spine Unit, Metropolitan Hospital, Faliro, Greece.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sapkas
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Athens, Agia Olga General Hospital, N. Ionia, Greece.
authors.forename: Nicolas E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Efstathopoulos
authors.affiliation: Spine Unit, Metropolitan Hospital, Faliro, Greece.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Papadakis