Hereditary multiple exostoses with spine involvement in a 4-year-old boy.
Hereditary multiple exostosis (HME) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by multiple osteochondromas. We describe a case of acute cervical spinal cord compression arising from an exostosis at the lamina of C7 and T1 in a 4-year-old Mexican-American boy with HME. His affected sibling also displayed spinal cord compression because of a bony exostosis. Acute cervical spinal cord compression resulting from osteochondroma is a serious complication of HME. (c) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Ezra
Navid
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90509, USA. navid.ezra@ucla.edu
Tetteh
Beatrice
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Diament
Michael
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Jonas
Adam J
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Dickson
Patricia
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005097:Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013131:Spine / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed