Distance from the growth plate and Its relation to the outcome of unicameral bone cyst treatment
Distance from the growth plate and Its relation to the outcome of unicameral bone cyst treatment
Background: interventions to treat unicameral bone cysts vary. Nonetheless, regardless of the intervention modality, the outcome is not certain. The purpose of this study was to determine if the distance between the growth plate and the cyst can be used to predict the outcome of the treatment.
Methods and materials: retrospectively, we assessed the outcome of 39 interventions in nineteen children that were performed between 1994 and 2003. Seventeen different modalities of treatment were employed. There were three female and sixteen male patients. The average age was 8 years. Nine cysts were in the greater trochanter area, three were in the femoral capital area and seven were in the proximal humerus. According to the cyst's distance from the growth plate, at the intervention time, there were 18 cases within less than 2 cm and 21 cases of more than 2 cm.
Results: complete healing was achieved in 10 children (employing seven different modalities). In nine of them, the cysts were more than 2 cm away from the growth plate. In one child, the cyst was within less than 2 cm of the growth plate, however, treatment here involved epiphyseodesis.
Discussion: this study confirmed that, regardless of intervention modality, complete healing was not achievable in those cysts that are within less than 2 cm of an active growth plate. Complete healing was possible in those cysts that are more than 2 cm away from the growth plate.
Conclusion: the 2-cm distance from the growth plate could be used as a predictor of treatment outcome of unicameral bone cysts
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Haidar, Saadallah George
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Culliford, D.J.
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Gent, Edward David
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Clarke, N.M.P.
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April 2011
Haidar, Saadallah George
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Culliford, D.J.
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Gent, Edward David
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Clarke, N.M.P.
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Haidar, Saadallah George, Culliford, D.J., Gent, Edward David and Clarke, N.M.P.
(2011)
Distance from the growth plate and Its relation to the outcome of unicameral bone cyst treatment.
Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, 5 (2), .
(doi:10.1007/s11832-010-0323-1).
Abstract
Background: interventions to treat unicameral bone cysts vary. Nonetheless, regardless of the intervention modality, the outcome is not certain. The purpose of this study was to determine if the distance between the growth plate and the cyst can be used to predict the outcome of the treatment.
Methods and materials: retrospectively, we assessed the outcome of 39 interventions in nineteen children that were performed between 1994 and 2003. Seventeen different modalities of treatment were employed. There were three female and sixteen male patients. The average age was 8 years. Nine cysts were in the greater trochanter area, three were in the femoral capital area and seven were in the proximal humerus. According to the cyst's distance from the growth plate, at the intervention time, there were 18 cases within less than 2 cm and 21 cases of more than 2 cm.
Results: complete healing was achieved in 10 children (employing seven different modalities). In nine of them, the cysts were more than 2 cm away from the growth plate. In one child, the cyst was within less than 2 cm of the growth plate, however, treatment here involved epiphyseodesis.
Discussion: this study confirmed that, regardless of intervention modality, complete healing was not achievable in those cysts that are within less than 2 cm of an active growth plate. Complete healing was possible in those cysts that are more than 2 cm away from the growth plate.
Conclusion: the 2-cm distance from the growth plate could be used as a predictor of treatment outcome of unicameral bone cysts
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Published date: April 2011
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