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SUBMITTER: Sasaki U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9249969 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sasaki Urara U Tamaki Masashi M Tomita Tetsuya T Okada Seiji S
Arthroplasty today 20220624
Patients with hereditary multiple exostosis develop several benign osseocartilaginous bulge lesions throughout the body. A 62-year-old woman presented for evaluation of worsening left knee valgus deformity, and left knee pain. She had been diagnosed with hereditary multiple exostosis at the age of 12 years. Radiographic evaluation of the left knee revealed exostoses that caused continuous bulges from cortical bone at the metaphyseal regions of the femur and tibia as well as extra-articular defor ...[more]