title: Hereditary multiple exostoses with spine involvement in a 4-year-old boy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90509, USA. navid.ezra@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Navid
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ezra
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tetteh
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diament
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Jonas
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dickson
mesh_terms: 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