Hemophilic Pseudotumor of Bone

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Hemarthrosis is one of the more common and disabling complications of hemophilia. The condition is recurrent more often than not, tends to occur especially in the knees, and eventuates in chronic arthritis. Involvement of bones has been reported less frequently, which adds interest to a report by Jensen and Putman in the current issue ofAmerican Journal of Diseases of Children(129:717-719, 1975). The authors report the case of a 21-year-old man, a known hemophiliac since he was 3 months old, who was admitted to the hospital for treatment of acute hemorrhage into his left knee and right hip. A chest roentgenogram, incidentally obtained, disclosed an expansile, destructive lesion in the proximal part of the left clavicle. Only then, on reexamination, was the head of the left clavicle noted to be larger than that of the right clavicle, and only then did the patient recall being struck in the chest

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