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Osteoid osteoma of the radial styloid mimicking de quervain tenosynovitis.

Chloros GD, Themistocleous GS, Papagelopoulos PJ, Khaldi L, Efstathopoulos DG, Soucacos PN

First Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. gchlorosdoc@gmail.com

A very unusual location of osteoid osteoma arising in the radial styloid is presented, which strongly mimicked de Quervain tenosynovitis, thereby resulting in the patient undergoing an additional unnecessary operation and a substantial delay of more than 2 years in diagnosis.

Published 18 October 2007 in South Med J, 100(10): 1045-7.
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