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* 20-30 yo male
* 55-60 yo males
* Gradual dull bone pain at the tibial area
* Back pain
* Leg swelling
* Pathological fracture
* Islands of epithelial cells are found in a fibrous stroma
* Palpable vertebral mass


* Well-demarcated, eccentric/epicenteric, expansile, osteolytic, cortical lesion on X ray
* Located at the tibial diaphysis
* Areas of lysis interspersed with areas of sclerosis
* Lack of periosteal reaction


* Biphasic tumor
* Discrete, solitary mass male 55 years
* Fibro-osseous component includes spindle cells
* Pain at the site of the skeletal lesion
* Epithelial component includes nests of basaloid cells
* Bone destruction


* p53 gene mutations
* Well-defined, “punched-out” lytic lesions
* Marked erosion, expansion, and destruction of bone cortex
* Thick ridging around the periphery
* “Soap bubble” appearance

Latest revision as of 20:27, 24 November 2015

  • 55-60 yo males
  • Back pain
  • Pathological fracture
  • Palpable vertebral mass


  • Discrete, solitary mass male 55 years
  • Pain at the site of the skeletal lesion
  • Bone destruction
  • Well-defined, “punched-out” lytic lesions
  • Marked erosion, expansion, and destruction of bone cortex
  • Thick ridging around the periphery
  • “Soap bubble” appearance