A Case of Diaphysial Aclasis
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By P. N. RAY, b.a., m.b., f.r.c.s. (Eng.) (Surgeon, Ccirmichael Medical College Hospitals, and Additional Surgeon, General Hospital, Howrah) This rare condition is known under a multiplicity of names, e.g., multiple cartilaginous exostoses, hereditary multiple exostoses, etc. The patient, a Hindu male child aged 12, complained of swelling around both the knees and the left ankle with hard nodules, which were slowly increasing in size. No pain or functional disability was complained of. The condition was first noticed about two years
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