Intracortical chondroma of the metacarpal bone: A case report

Table 1 Summary of the eleven cases of intracortical chondroma published to date

Ref.	Age (yr)	Sex	Symptoms of pain	Analgesic effect of NSAIDs	Location	Tumor size (mm)	Radiology findings	Treatment		Recurrence
							Lucency with surrounding sclerosis	Cortical thickening	Calcification
Abdelwahab et al[1]	22	Male	+	NR	Femur	20	+	−	−	En bloc excision	−
Horikiri et al[2]	21	Male	+	NR	Metacarpal	12	+	−	−	En bloc excision and iliac bone graft	−
Ramnath et al[3]	5	Female	+	+	Tibia	5	+	+	−	CT-guided biopsy followed by radiofrequency ablation. After recurrence, en bloc excision	+ 6 mo after radiofrequency ablation
Ramnath et al[3]	7	Male	+	+	Femur	3	+	−	−	CT-guided biopsy followed by radiofrequency ablation	−
Lui et al[4]	7	Male	+	NR	Tibia	10	+	+	−	En bloc excision	−
Jones et al[5]	31	Female	+	NR	Humerus	8	+	+	−	Excisional biopsy	−
Jones et al[5]	41	Male	−	NR	Femur	10	+	－	−	Excisional biopsy	−
Choi et al[6]	12	Male	+	−	Tibia	5	+	+	−	Excisional biopsy	−
Chou et al[7]	7	Female	+	NR	Humerus	8	+	−	−	Excisional biopsy	−
Rudman et al[8]	45	Female	−	NR	Tibia	10	+	−	+	En bloc excision	−
Present case	40	Male	+	−	Metacarpal	4	+	−	+	Curettage	−

+: With; −: Without; NR: Not reported in the original study; CT: Computed tomography.

Table 2 Clinical and imaging findings of intracortical chondroma and osteoid osteoma

	Symptoms of pain	Analgesic effect of NSAIDs	Radiology findings			Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging
			Lucency with surrounding sclerosis	Cortica; thickening	Calcification
Intracortical chordoma	+	(-)-(+)	+	(-)-(+)	(-)-(+)	Only the tumor margin is enhanced
Osteoid osteoma	+	+	+	+	+	Signal intensity of both the tumor and the surrounding area

+: With; −: Without; NSAIDs: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.