Symptomatic Ribbing’s disease

Rev. esp. cir. ortop. traumatol. 2008;52:322-25 Ribbing’s disease is a rare form of sclerosing bone dysplasia, characterized by the exuberant yet benign formation of endosteal and periosteal bone in the shaft of long bones, particularly the tibia and the femur. Although rarely symptomatic, it can cause pain and numbness in the affected limb. Pain is of an inflammatory nature, appears progressively and seldom disappears with conventional pain killers or anti-inflammatory drugs. We present the clinical case of a patient who reports pain in the left leg that developed over the past 7 months. Clinically and radiologically, the signs present are characteristic of the typical chronology of Ribbing’s disease.