Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 154-156
Case Report
Revanth R B1, Deepti Naik2, Anil Kumar Sakalecha3,∗, Aashish4, Yashas Ullas4, Guru Yogendra M1
1 Postgraduate, Department of Radio-diagnosis, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka, India
2 Professor, Department of Radio-diagnosis, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka, India
3 Professor & HOD, Department of Radio-diagnosis, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka, India
4 Senior resident, Department of Radio-diagnosis, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author email: [email protected]
Received Date:07 October 2022, Accepted Date:30 October 2022, Published Date:22 December 2022
Fibrous dysplasia is a disease that causes aberrant development of osteoblasts, which results in fibrous stroma replacing normal bone. Lichtenstein first described it in 1938. It is a sporadic disorder caused due to a postzygotic mutation in the GNAS1 gene. It can affect a single bone (monostotic) or several bones (polyostotic). The most common locations are the skull & ribs. It is typically an incidental finding and asymptomatic. When a pathologic fracture or malignant alteration complicates it, symptoms could develop. As polyostotic FD is a rare disorder that only occasionally occurs in 20–25% of patients, therefore the aim of this article is to report such a rare case of polyostotic FD in a 30-year-old female patient showing the characteristic changes.
Keywords: Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, GNAS1 gene mutation, Sporadic disorder
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Published By Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education, Kolar, Karnataka
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