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An unusual presentation of hemophilia B: pseudotumor of proximal tibia

Saurav Mittal1, Sumit Arora, Shilpa Khanna

  • 1Department of Orthopedic Syrgery, Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.

American Journal of Orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.)
|October 21, 2011
PubMed

Hemophilia is one of the most common genetically inherited causes of bleeding disorders. The usual presentation is continuous bleeding from a wound. Very seldom, it presents as a pseudotumor of bone. When left untreated, it may induce compression and pressure necrosis of adjacent structures. Careful evaluation and a high index of suspicion are usually required to arrive at the correct diagnosis. In this article, we report the case of a 10-year-old boy with hemophilia B (Christmas disease) that presented as a pseudotumor producing a large defect in the proximal tibia.

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