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La metachondromatose

Metachondromatosis

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Abstract

Metachondromatosis is characterized by the presence of cartilaginous tumors which preferentially affect hands and feet. Chondromas may develop inside the bone or on its outside. Certain very stricking X-ray lesions seem to be surrounded by a calcified seam.

The evolution of the disease is often capricious: some tumors disappear while others grow rapidly.

The disease is transmitted as an irregular dominant. The prognosis is good, although the limb deformities often have to be corrected by surgery.

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La métachondromatose se traduit par la présence de tumeurs cartilagineuses qui atteignent, avec électivité, les extrémités. Les chondromes peuvent se développer à l'extérieur ou l'intérieur de l'os. Certaines images, très signulières, semblent entourées d'une coque calcifiée.

L'évolution est sourvent capricieuse: certaines tumeurs disparaissent alors que d'autres se développent rapidement.

La maladie obéit à une transmission irrégulièrement dominante. Son pronostic est favorable, mais les déformations des extrémités justifient assez souvent une correction chirurgicale.

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Maroteaux, P. La metachondromatose. Z. Kinder-Heilk. 109, 246–261 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00442274

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