What is it about?
Familial osteochondromatosis is a bone disease that is hereditary and causes changes in the shape of bones. These changes can compress vascular structures and cause pain in walking, thrombosis, and even amputation.
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Why is it important?
This condition is important because it is a not so rare disease that can cause vascular disease in young individuals with disabling potential.
Perspectives
After this first description of the condition in the literature, it is possible that the disease and this complication are more described, and thus we know its real prevalence.
Jamil Mariúba
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
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This page is a summary of: Case Report: Tibial and fibular osteochondroma as an unusual cause of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, F1000Research, February 2018, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.13648.1.
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