Authors report on the results of treatment of 52 primary and 16 secondary aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC). ABC grow rapidly; 84% of them have already destroyed more than the half of the bone width at recognition. En bloc resection is preferred when the ABC is growing superficially and eccentrically and
Aneurysmal bone cyst
β Scribed by P. Farsetti; C. Tudisco; M. Rosa; G. Pentimalli; E. Ippolito
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 372 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-3916
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β¦ Synopsis
Twenty cases of aneurysmal bone cyst were reviewed, with an average follow-up of 10.3 years. Twelve patients still had open growth plates at diagnosis, but all of them were fully grown at follow-up. The treatments performed were: resection of the cyst or of the whole affected bone, curettage, and curettage and bone grafting. Radiation therapy was a complementary treatment in three cases. Two patients relapsed, one that had been treated by curettage alone and one by curettage and bone grafting. Five patients showed skeletal deformities at follow-up. Two had lesions of the growth plate, most likely caused by radiation therapy, whereas in the other three growth had probably been impaired by surgical trauma.
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Background and Methods. Of the 200 cases of ABC in the Rizzoli Institute files, 15 had solid features on both gross and histologic examination. Inasmuch as fibrous proliferation with giant cell and bone production along with fibromyxoid areas and small aneurysmal spaces were found in the solid parts