- juxtacortical chondroma
- an uncommon benign tumor of cartilage growing beneath the periosteum but external to the cortex of a bone, usually the small bones of the hands or feet. Called also periosteal c.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
juxtacortical chondroma
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