Ashley's+Wiki

Osteochondroma Wiki This assignment was to create a website where other students could collaborate on any topic on the skeletal system. I chose to create a website on a bone disorder that I never hear of before; I actually got the idea to use osteochondroma from my dad, who has plenty of medical books because he is a surgeon. The name "osteochondroma" kind of threw me off at first because it sounded like something I would have trouble understanding just by the name, but I found the disorder very interesting. Osteochondroma is a tumor of the bone, but it is not so severe that it could become malignant. The tumor is a growth that develops on the growth plate of a bone. It is a mass of excess cartilage on the bone that will usually cause a person irritation, swelling, and pain. I found a lot of my information on the disorder itself in a book at home, but the cures and treatments I found mostly online. The pictures I thought were very helpful, especially the X-rays because it is easy to see the outgrowth in the bone. I liked that contributions to my page that other students made. The symptoms and treatment included many additions from other people, and even though I was planning on typing the same information the next day, it was nice to see other students also learned a little from the site I began. If you read through my wiki, you will see that even if you are diagnosed with osteochondroma, thank goodness it is treatable and will not become malignant like other tumors! The surgical procedure to remove the cancer is described, and there is even a picture of a removed osteochondroma tumor. The best contribution to the page, however, is the X-ray picture I was able to download from an actual patient given to me by Dr. Taylor, M.D. I was thrilled to have an actual picture, and not having to go through the whole finding a royalty-free picture online process. I had fun in this project because I learned about a whole different bone disorder I never knew about until this project. Rather than simply writing down a bunch of information on a subject of the bone I already knew about, I discovered a whole new disorder I may not have ever heard about unless choosing it for my wiki project.