Spontaneous osteochondroma resolution in a young female: imaging and histopathological findings.
OBJECTIVE
To report the first operated and histopathologically studied case of spontaneously resolving solitary osteochondroma.
An 18-year-old girl presented with leg pain of 2 months' duration. She had been diagnosed to have a proximal tibial osteochondroma since the age of 9 years. Excision biopsy of the tumor remnant and its surrounding tissue was done after CT and MRI imaging.


CONCLUSIONS
The spontaneous resolution of this case could have been due to simultaneous interruption of blood supply to the tumor and its cartilaginous cap or hyperemia around the tumor.
Mahmoodi
Seyed Mohsen
SM
Department of Orthopedics, Dubai Hospital, Dubai, UAE. dr.mahmoodi@csh.ae
Bahirwani
Ramesh K
RK
Moosa
Nooruddin K
NK
Eydou
Alaaaldeen Z
AZ
AbdullGaffar
Badr
B
D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D015831:Osteochondroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013977:Tibia