MULTIFOCAL PSEUDOTUMOR IN A SINGLE LIMB

Citation
M. Heim et al., MULTIFOCAL PSEUDOTUMOR IN A SINGLE LIMB, Haemophilia, 3(1), 1997, pp. 50-53
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology
Journal title
ISSN journal
13518216
Volume
3
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
50 - 53
Database
ISI
SICI code
1351-8216(1997)3:1<50:MPIASL>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A 13-year-old boy with severe haemophilia presented at the National Ce ntre with gross swelling of his foot and infrapatella area, and report ed that several months previously he had kicked a football and had ins tantly developed a bleed in his foot. Despite replacement factor the s welling failed to subside. He had ambulated for a while using crutches and when he eventually presented himself the X-rays revealed two sepa rate pseudotumours. The patient underwent a transfemoral amputation.