Early symptoms of osteoma?

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Osteoma is a kind of tumor that occurs in young people. Incidence rate is only next to osteochondroma, and male is more. Slow growth and mild symptoms. There was no tendency of malignant transformation. Although the hope of osteoma cure is great, but also in the early detection can be cured, the early symptoms of osteoma? Now let me tell you something.

Early symptoms of osteoma?

The growth of tumor is slow and the symptoms are mild. It usually appears in childhood and grows gradually with the development of the body. By the age of 10-20, after several years or decades of disease course, most of the tumors cause attention. But sometimes the corresponding symptoms appear due to the compression of the tumor, such as blocking the nasal cavity for those born in the nasal bone, eyeball protrusion for those born in the orbit, tooth loosening for those born in the mandible, dizziness, headache, epilepsy and other symptoms for those born in the cranial cavity.

Most of them occur in the skull, facial bone and mandible occasionally, which can be divided into dense osteoma and cancellous osteoma. In the skull, the frontal bone is the most, followed by parietal bone, temporal bone and occipital bone. In the facial bone, it is mostly located in the maxilla, mandible, zygoma and nasal bone, followed by frontal sinus, orbit and the middle third of the front side of tibia.

Dense osteoma occurs on the surface of the craniofacial bone, local uplift, occurs in the intracranial plate, if the tumor protrudes, it can cause intracranial pressure, dizziness, headache, and even epilepsy. Osteocancellous tumors often occur in the cartilage at the junction of the long bone shaft and epiphysis. With the increase of the length of the tubular bone, osteoma also changes in shape.

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In short, if the X-ray of teenagers shows localized bone destruction after shooting, which has different degrees of ossification, it should be considered as osteoma, so once the body's bones appear abnormal symptoms, we must take a timely film examination.