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What is the difference between a fibroma and osteochondroma?location is below the knee and looks a lump inside the leg and is painless.what can it be?
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Bone vs. soft tissue: Lesion if palpable most likely soft tissue in origin and can be defined on MRI. Osteochondroma is an osseous lesion where fibroma usually soft tissue and can arise from any fibrous tissue site in lower leg such as tendon or fibrous tissue between muscle planes. Bx makes the required dx for treatment
Answered 6/12/2017
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