Osteochondroma of the Hyoid Bone: A Previously Unrecognized Location and Review of the Literature.

Head Neck Pathol

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 13-145G CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1732, USA.

Published: December 2015

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  • Osteochondroma is the most common benign bone tumor, primarily found in the axial skeleton, especially in the distal femur.
  • Most head and neck cases occur in the mandibular condyle, with very few reported in other areas like the skull base and neck.
  • This report presents the first documented case of an osteochondroma in the hyoid bone, identified as an asymptomatic mass in a young woman.

Article Abstract

Osteochondroma is a benign cartilaginous neoplasm and the most common benign tumor of bone. Osteochondromas occur primarily in the axial skeleton with a predilection for the distal femur, and relatively few cases occur in the head and neck region. The majority of cases of osteochondromas in the head and neck region affect the mandibular condyle, with fewer cases reported in the skull base and the neck. To our knowledge, there is no reported case of osteochondroma of the hyoid bone documented in the English literature. We thus report the first case of a hyoid bone osteochondroma, presenting as an asymptomatic mass in a young woman.

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