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KMID : 0386720060180030132
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Journal of the Korean Hip Society
2006 Volume.18 No. 3 p.132 ~ p.137
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A Giant Mass Mimicking Malignancy Developed in the Proximal Thigh after Hip Arthroplasty
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Cho Myung-Rae
Lee Sang-Wook
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Abstract
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A large mass as a sign of an infection is rare, and it might convince a physician that it had the appearance of a malignancy. The patient in this case visited our clinics after attending several hospitals, with a mass that had the appearance of a malignancy, based on the severe destructive findings observed on plain radiographs. We report the first documented case of a patient with a large mass (12×7×20 cm) and a low-grade infection, which developed at the proximal thigh after a hip arthroplasty. It is important to realize that an infection accompanied by a large mass, can mimic a highly destructive malignant lesion on plain radiographs.
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