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lettrine (iou)



lettrine noun. M20.
[French, formed as LETTER noun1: see -INE1.]
An initial letter, esp. a decorated one; an initial letter standing out from a painted background.

Osteoid osteoma (medicine)


osteoid osteoma
<radiology> M more than F, 15 - 30 years of age, lucent nidus with thickened cortex, metaphyseal, femur, talus, tibia, patella, rarely spine, never skull or clavicle, pain at night, relievey be inflammatory rather than neoplastic, treatment: leave it (disappears in 4-6 yrs), or remove nidus, Differential diagnosis: TB abscess, chronic osteo (Brodie abscess), sclerosing osteomyelitis of Garre