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CASE REPORT article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Surgical Oncology
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1431601
A case of tibial tuberous osteochondroma complicated with gouty calculus
Provisionally accepted- 1 Beijing Jishuitan Hospital Guizhou Hospital, Beijing, China
- 2 Guizhou Provincial Orthopaedic Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China
Osteochondroma (OC) mainly occurs in the metaphysis of long bones in children and adolescents, and it is extremely rare to occur in the tibial tuberosity, and usually has no clinical symptoms. Here, we report a rare case of osteochondroma of the tibial tuberosity combined with gouty stones in a 44-year-old male patient who was found to have a mass on the left upper tibia for 20 years, which had not been taken seriously or treated, and the patient was now admitted to the hospital after the mass developed painful symptoms.In this case, X-ray examination clearly showed the lesion, which manifested as a limited bony protuberance with a wide base attached to the tibial tuberosity, and the imaging diagnosis was osteochondroma of the tibial tuberosity. The patient underwent surgical resection, and the pathologic results suggested that the osteochondroma of tibial tuberosity was combined with gouty stones. The patient's symptoms improved significantly after the surgery, and no obvious discomfort or dysfunction has been found in the follow-up so far.
Keywords: Osteochondroma, Tibial tuberosity, Gouty calculus, Imaging diagnosis, surgical resection
Received: 12 May 2024; Accepted: 07 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Fu, Ye, Deng, Gao and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Guomin Ye, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital Guizhou Hospital, Beijing, China
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