Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Incidental Benign Skeletal Lesions: Osteoid Osteoma

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT

  • 7 Accesses

Abstract

Osteoid osteoma is the third most common benign tumor of the skeleton. It generally presents with severe pain, which is significantly worse at night and may be diminished by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The majority of lesions occur in the lower limbs and have a characteristic appearance of a lucent nidus with surrounding sclerotic reaction. Scintigraphy shows intense uptake around the nidus, with less intense uptake extending into the surrounding sclerotic reaction (double density).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bergstrand H. Űber eine eigenartige, wahrscheinlich bisher nicht beschriebene osteoblastische Krankheit in den langen Knochen der Hand und des Fusses. Acta Radiol. 1930;11:597.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frassica FJ, Waltrip RL, Sponseller PD, Ma LD, McCarthy EF Jr. Clinicopathologic features and treatment of osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma in children and adolescents. Orthop Clin North Am. 1996;27(3):559–74.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Golding JS. The natural history of osteoid osteoma; with a report of twenty cases. J Bone Joint Surg Br 1954;36-B(2):218–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jaffe H. “Osteoid osteoma”. A benign osteoblastic tumor composed of osteoid and atypical bone. Arch Surg. 1935;31:709.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee EH, Shafi M, Hui JH. Osteoid osteoma: a current review. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006;26(5):695–700.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Concord Hospital & University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gregory L. Falk

  2. Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Scott B. Simpson

Authors
  1. Gregory L. Falk
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Scott B. Simpson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

Section Editor information

  1. CNI Molecular Imaging, Meadowbank, Australia

    Hans Van der Wall

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Falk, G.L., Simpson, S.B. (2023). Incidental Benign Skeletal Lesions: Osteoid Osteoma. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_140

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_140

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-031-26448-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-031-26449-8

  • eBook Packages: MedicineReference Module Medicine

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation