A 20-year-old man with multiple hereditary exostoses presented with a pulsatile swelling in the posterior-medial distal thigh. He gave a history that 5 weeks previously, after squatting down then standing, he experienced a sharp pain behind his right knee. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging demonstrated a large haematoma associated with the popliteal artery. Ultrasound imaging visualized a 9-cm po...

PURPOSE To assess the radiographic features of 36 hips with hereditary multiple exostoses (HME). METHODS Hip parameters of 12 males and 6 females (36 hips) aged 2 to 28 years with HME were assessed using anteroposterior radiographs. The recorded features included the sites of osteochondromas, the femoral head/neck ratio, the Reimer's migration percentage, Sharp's acetabular angle, the centre ...

Multiple cartilage-tipped osteomata are often congenital, hereditary, and fairly symmetrically bilateral. They occur near the growing ends of long bones in the vicinity of the epiphyseal cartilage; this gives strong support to the view that they arise in a sequestrated part, or ' rest', of the epiphyseal cartilage. They may therefore be common in cases where present or previous rickets have cau...

complains of an audible, and often palpable, grating and snapping sound on shoulder girdle movements. Scapular movements are uncomfortable, and the noise can often be localised by the examiner to a specific part of the scapulo-thoracic “joint”. The condition was first described by Boinet in 1867 when he presented a young man of nineteen with discomfort on scapular movements and “une cr#{233}pit...

Abstract Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME), also known as familiar osteochondromatosis or diaphyseal aclasis, are an autosomal dominant inherited genetic pathology that is characterized by the presence of benign osteochondromas. Knee deformity common in patients with HME, nearly a third developing genu valgus. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been used to correct valgus deformities advanced ...