What is osteoma of the bone?

Bone osteoma is a benign neoplasm of the skeleton. It is usually diagnosed in children, sometimes accidentally detected by X-ray examination.

What provokes bone osteoma?

Most cases of multiple exostoses are a hereditary manifestation. The probability of obtaining such a disease by inheritance is about 50%. Provocators of the disease are also considered injuries, all kinds of skin problems, often the osteoma of the parietal bone is provoked by syphilis, and rheumatism and gout may also accompany the disease.

What is the osteoma of the bone?

The disease is of three types:

1. Solid osteoma. It consists of a dense substance, located parallel and concentric plates on the surface. More common on the bones of the pelvis, face, skull.
2. Spongy.
3. Brain-shaped, having cavities filled with bone marrow.

There is another division according to Vikhrov. Bone osteoma according to this technique is divided into hyperplastic (develop from the bone system) and heteroplastic formations (arise from the connective tissues of various organs).

Bone osteoma: symptomatology

This disease occurs infrequently, develops usually in men and in adolescence. The very process of education is very slow and often painless. Can osteoma become a cancer? Science does not know such cases. Usually, neoplasms are located on the outer surface of bones. A favorite place of localization is flat cranial bones, the walls of the maxillary and frontal sinuses, the humerus and thighbones.

On the outer plate of the bones of the skull, the osteome looks like a dense, immovable, painless new growth with a smooth surface. With this arrangement, it can provoke headaches, seizures of epilepsy, memory disorders, increase intracranial pressure.

Hormonal disorders of the osteoma can provoke if located in the area of the Turkish saddle.

Localization in the nose, can cause various eye diseases: deterioration of visual acuity, exophthalmos, anisocoria, ptosis, diplopia. And if it reaches a large size and is located side by side with the nerve root, penetrates into the arch or into the process of the vertebra, symptoms of the compressed spinal cord and deformation of the vertebral column may appear.

Diagnosis of the disease

Diagnosis is made after clinical radiology. The course of the disease and the X-ray picture allow us to determine the chronic form of the disease or osteogenic sarcoma.

Osteoma of bone: treatment

The given disease is treated only by a scalpel of the surgeon. An operation is performed either according to indications or to eliminate a cosmetic defect. Together with the removal of the tumor, a resection of the underlying plate of the uninfected bone is performed.

If there is no obvious symptomatology, the patient does not make complaints, only dynamic observation is carried out. The prognosis for the diagnosis of osteoma in children is positive.