MULTIPLE HEREDITARY EXOSTOSES - CASE-REPO RT AND LITERATURE-REVIEW

The authors describe a patient with multiple hereditary exostoses - at tacked metaphysis of the hollow bones, clinical signs of a polyneuropa thia and status after operation of an adenolymphom at the left glandul a parotis. Discussed were diagnostic treatments with accentuation on t he early diagnosis of the malign alterations of the exostoses. A speci al significance they attached to the role of the bone scintigraphy, so nography, computertomography and the magnetic-resonance tomography. Th ere were complications discussed, arising from the pressure of the exo stoses onto the surrounding soft tissue, especially on the nerve struc tures.