Florid reactive periostitis of the hands

Jambhekar, Nirmala A.
Desai, Saral S.
Puri, Ajay
Agarwal, Manish

¹Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
²Department of Orthopedics, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Received: 2 January 2004/Accepted: 3 February 2004/Published online: 10 July 2004

Skeletal Radiology 33(11):p 663-665, November 2004. | DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0760-3

Abstract

Reactive periostitis of the hand can be a confounding lesion on both radiological and histological grounds. An erroneous diagnosis of a malignant tumor, particularly an osteosarcoma, is a possibility. Two cases of florid reactive periostitis of the hand mistaken for osteosarcoma are reported here to illustrate this entity and caution against a diagnostic pitfall.