Chondroma of the Femur

Periosteal chondroma of the femur: A case report and review of the literature

Periosteal chondroma is a rare benign cartilage tumor located on the cortical bone, which may be mistaken clinically and histologically for other and more common tumors in this location. The current study reports the case of periosteal chondroma located in the distal femur of a 14-year-old female. A non-tender swelling, 5×4 cm in diameter, was identified on computed tomography, a radiological s...

Chondroma of the bronchus.

Primary chondroma of the lung.

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Chondroma of the scalp

A 26 year old man, with no specific past or family history, presented with slow growing subcutaneous mass in the right parietal region of about 4 cm. Skin examination revealed a firm subcutaneous nodule that was movable over the underlying bone. Physical examination was not remarkable other than above-described skin lesion. X-rays of the skull (A) and CT scan (B) showed a subcutaneous mass next...

Chondroma of the scaphoid.

Chondroma is the most common primary bone tumour of the hand, but carpal chondroma has, as far as we know, been reported only twice previously in the English language literature: in one report by Dahlin (1957), no localisation was mentioned: the other, by Takigawa (1971) described a patient with a chondroma in the scaphoid and lunate of the right wrist. We report two patients each with a chondr...