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Subject: costal exostosis
Subject: hereditary multiple exostoses
Subject: osteochondroma
Subject: pleural effusion

Year: 2021

Type: Article

Title: Massive pleural effusion as a result of hereditary multiple exostoses

Author: Bundovska Kocev, Smiljana
Author: Antuleska Becheska, Gordana

Abstract: Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is a rare, benign autosomal dominant genetic disorder, but in very rare cases they can have malignant transformation. Exostoses can cause pain, pressure on some nerves, blood vessels and damage on surrounding tissues. Chest CT and CT angiography play an indispensable role in the diagnoses and management of exostoses. We report an eleven-year-old boy with massive pleural effusion caused by costal exostoses on the right ninth rib. Costal exostoses represent an unusual cause of pleural effusion.

Publisher: Macedonian Association of Anatomists

Relation: Journal of Morphological Sciences

Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/20076
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/20076

Title	Date	Views
Massive pleural effusion as a result of hereditary multiple exostoses	2021	16