title: Femoral exostosis causing vastus medialis pain in an active young lady: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Musculoskeletal conditions are a common reason for consultation to General Practitioners (GPs)/family physicians in primary care. Osteochondromas are the most common benign bone tumours and usually occur in the metaphyseal region of long bones. Despite the distal femur being the commonest location to find these benign bone tumours, this is the first case report in the literature specifically describing vastus medialis muscle pain as the presenting symptom due to underlying bursa formation secondary to local pressure effects.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty nine year old female of white British ethnic origin, presenting to a primary care clinic with a three year history of intermittent left distal medial thigh pain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The benign bone tumour, femoral exostosis/osteochondroma, was diagnosed via Magnaetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and treated conservatively, with surgical excision an option if not resolving. GPs/family physicians need to be aware of this diagnosis and that femoral exostosis/osteochondroma can present to primary care physicians, particularly within the second decade of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. nheron02@qub.ac.uk.|Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. nheron02@qub.ac.uk.|UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. nheron02@qub.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Heron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005096:Exostoses / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D059352:Musculoskeletal Pain / Q000209:etiology*