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Enchondroma OrthoFracs

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Description: Definition - Benign intramedullary cartilage tumour producing mature hyaline cartilage
Aetiology
Popular theory is
Arise from the physis as cell rests
Fail to undergo endochondral ossification and deposited into the metaphysis
Moves into diaphysis as it grows
Central location à Enchondroma
Outside the cortex à Periosteal or Juxtacortical Chondroma

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Added: Mon Sep 28 2009