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Intracortical osteosarcoma; two-year delay in diagnosis

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Intracortical osteosarcoma is the rarest type of osteosarcoma. In most instances the tumor arises in the cortex of the femur, less commonly, in the tibia. We describe an 11-year-old patient with intracortical osteosarcoma of the tibia in whom the tumor was present for 2 years and became painful 3 months prior to presentation.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Box 1234, The Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA, , , , ,

    G. Hermann

  2. Department of Pathology, Box 1234, The Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA, , , , ,

    M. Klein

  3. Department of Orthopedics, The Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA, , , , ,

    D. Springfield

  4. Department of Radiology of the Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York USA, , , , ,

    I. Abdelwahab

  5. Department of Radiology of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, USA, , , , ,

    S. Dan

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Hermann, .G., Klein, .M., Springfield, .D. et al. Intracortical osteosarcoma; two-year delay in diagnosis. Skeletal Radiol 31, 592–596 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-002-0532-x

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