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As its name indicates, fibrous dysplasia is not a tumour properly speaking. It rather represents an invasion of the bone by connective tissue of bony origin. It exists in two forms: monostotic (a solitary lesion), extremely rare in the hand, and polyostotic, in which the skeleton of the hand is very often affected.
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Glicenstein, J., Ohana, J., Leclercq, C. (1988). Fibrous Dysplasia. In: Tumours of the Hand. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71834-2_38
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