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Ollier’s disease: features of the hands
  1. Owen Godkin⇑,
  2. Prasad Ellanti,
  3. Gary O'Toole
  1. Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Owen Godkin, owen.godkin{at}gmail.com

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A 14-year-old boy attended our services for orthopaedic evaluation due to the development of multiple enchondromatous lesions. Clinical examination of the hands revealed painless swollen digits of asymmetric lengths (figure 1). Plain film radiographs demonstrated extensive bilateral expansile lytic lesions of metacarpals and phalanges with diffuse matrix calcification resulting in cortical thinning, which is in keeping with Ollier’s disease (figure 2). With no features concerning for malignancy in the hands, this patient is being followed up annually …

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  • Contributors OG and PE: concept and design of work. OG, PE and GOT: drafting of article . GOT and PE: critical revision of the article .

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Consent obtained from Guardian.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.