Week 145: Case 1

1. Presented by Edward McCarthy, M.D. and prepared by Sharon Swierczynski, M.D., Ph.D.

A 14 year-old boy twisted his ankle and heard a snap. A radiograph demonstrated a well-defined lytic lesion in the distal tibial metaphysis with a pathologic fracture. A biopsy was taken.

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