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Complications

1. Pressure on the nerves and blood vessels

2. Pressure on the adjacent bone

•Deformities

•Fracture

3. Overlying bursitis

4. Malignant transformation <1%

•Pain – (fracture - bursitis - nerve compression)

•Growth of the lesion after skeletal maturation

•>1cm cartilage cap

•Dispersed calcification in the cap

•Increase uptake in bone scan

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