A Rare Cause of Shoulder Pain: Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia

Bayram KELLE1, Aygül POLAT KELLE2, Kıvılcım EREN ERDOĞAN3, Erkan KOZANOĞLU1

1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey

Keywords: Fibrous dysplasia, humerus, shoulder, shoulder pain

Abstract

Fibrous dysplasia is a rare bone disease which has a wide spectrum of symptoms depending on the involvement area such as pain, deformity, fracture, dyspnea or visual loss. One of the rare involvement areas is the bones around the shoulder. Fibrous dysplasia presents in two forms named monostotic or polyostotic. In this article, we present a case with monostotic fibrous dysplasia of the humeral head who admitted to our clinic with shoulder pain.

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The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.

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