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Solitary Osteochondroma

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Definition: Benign cartilaginous neoplasm derived from an aberrant subperiosteal germ of the physeal cartilage, which grows and matures according to normal enchondral ossification.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Nicola Fabbri MD

  2. 3rd Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Clinic Prevalently Oncologic, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Davide Donati MD

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  1. Muscoloskeletal Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Piero Picci

  2. Department of Surgery, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Manfrini

  3. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Nicola Fabbri

  4. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti

  5. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Daniel Vanel

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Fabbri, N., Donati, D. (2014). Solitary Osteochondroma. In: Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D. (eds) Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01748-8_15

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