Week 208: Case 4

1. Presented by Edward McCarthy, M.D. and prepared by Jon Davison, M.D.

A 21 year-old man had a painful swelling in the tip of his thumb for 6 months. A radiograph demonstrated an expansile lytic lesion in the proximal portion of a metacarpel. This lesion was curettaged.

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