Disseminating Adamantinoma of the Tibia

Disseminating Adamantinoma of the Tibia

Patient. This report describes a patient with a primary long bone adamantinoma. The lesion was initially wrongly diagnosed as fibrous dysplasia and the patient was treated by curettage. At second local recurrence, the tumour had progressed from an osteofibrous dysplasia-like to a full-blown classic adamantinoma, with metastatic potential to the lungs 19 years after the initial treatment. Lung m...

[Adamantinoma of the tibia].

Adamantinoma ofthe tibia is not a common lesion, but because ofits somewhat anomalous features and confusing histological picture it continues to arouse the interest of clinicians and pathologists. Much of the interest stems from the term adamantinoma which was first used by Fischer (1913) to describe a primary bone tumour involving the tibia. He used the term adamantinoma because of its resemb...

A metastasising adamantinoma of the tibia.

Adamantinoma of the Tibia: A Case Report

INTRODUCTION Adamantinoma is a bone tumor which is commonly showed in mandible. Its occurrence in long bones constitutes a rare affection and a difficult histological diagnosis This rare malignant tumor of mesenchymal and epithelial origin was discovered in the tibia of a male patient. CASE REPORT The authors report a case of adamantinoma of the tibia in a 36- years old. He presented with slo...

Adamantinoma of tibia (a case report).

Introduction: Adamantinoma is one of the rarest low-grade malignant bone tumors, representing 0.4% of them with only around 300 documented case of it. Case Report: We reported a rare case of primary adamantinoma of the tibia in a 35-year-old Indonesian mongoloid female which recurred after excision of the primary tumor seven years prior to admission. Conclusion: Adamantinoma is hard to metastas...