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Is Ollier's disease an understaging of Maffucci's syndrome?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

S. K. Ahmed ,
W. C. Lee ,
R. M. Irving  and
A. R. Walsh
S. K. Ahmed
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
W. C. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
R. M. Irving*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
A. R. Walsh
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Mr R. M. Irving, Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH.
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Abstract

Ollier's disease and Maffucci's syndrome are similar multiple enchondromatous conditions. Other co-existing pathologies, particularly other primary malignancies, have been described sporadically in both conditions but more so in Maffucci's syndrome. Maffucci's syndrome is distinguished from Ollier's disease by the presence of haemangiomas in the former. In this report, a patient believed to have Ollier's disease for 44 years was subsequently found to have large splenic haemangiomas on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In the light of this, we recommend that any patient diagnosed with Ollier's disease to have total body MRI to search for haemangiomas that will alter the diagnosis to Maffucci's syndrome and hence the prognosis. MRI also screens for the presence of other associated malignancies.

Keywords

Ollier's disease, Maffucci's syndromeEnchondromatosis, multipleTemporal bone

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Type
Radiology in focus
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 113 , Issue 9 , September 1999 , pp. 861 - 864
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999

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