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Periosteal chondrosarcoma in a 9-year-old girl with osteochondromatosis.

Weinberg J, Miller TT, Handelsman JE, Kahn LB, Godfried DH, Kenan S

Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, New York, and Department of Radiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USA. jweinb2000@yahoo.com

A 9-year-old girl with multiple osteochondromatosis presented with a 1 year history of a gradually enlarging surface lesion originating from the midsection of the right humerus, distal to an osteochondroma. Radiographically and histologically this lesion proved to be a periosteal chondrosarcoma adjacent to an osteochondroma.

Published 5 September 2005 in Skeletal Radiol, 34(9): 539-42.
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