What is it about?
Isolated bone lesions caused by infection of African Histoplasmoses can be misdiagnosed as bone cancer. This study highlights this problem with a misdiagnosed radial bone lesion and describes how to avoid such mistakes in clinical practice.
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Why is it important?
To always be accurate with diagnosis and avoid unnecessary over treatment of simple infected bone lesions.
Perspectives
Bone cancer treatments require aggression and can be mutilating to the patient. It would be damning to realize that such extent of treatment was applied for benign condition.
Professor Okechukwu Onwuasoigwe
University of Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: African histoplasmosis: osteomyelitis of the radius, Mycoses, March 1998, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1998.tb00309.x.
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