ΑΙ ΜΟΝΗΡΕΙΣ ΚΥΣΤΕΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΣΤΩΝ: επί τη βάσει παθολογοανατομικού υλικού
THE SIMPLE SOLITARY OR UNICAMERAL BONE CYST IS A SKELETAL DEFECT OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY, WHICH IS MAINLY ROENTGENOGRAPHICALLY DIAGNOSES. IN OUR THESIS WE REVIEWTHE RECENT LITERATURE AND WE PRESENT 45 CASES WITH THIS BONE LESION. THESE HAVE BEEN TREATED AND FOLLOWED-UP IN THE ORTHOPAEDIC DEPARTMENTS OF "ASKLEPION" ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL. FROM OUR CLINICAL STUDY CERTAIN CONCLUSION DO SEEM TO BE WELL SUPPORTED BOTH BY WRITTEN EVIDENCE AND BY OBSERVATIONS FOLLOWING OUR CASES. - MALE PREDOMINATE IN THE PROPORTION OF 3:2. - ΑLL THE CASES UNDER INSPECTION GIVE THE AGE RANGES OF THE PATIENTS AND AGREE IN THAT THE PREPONDERANCE OF PATIENTS ARE CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIFTEEN. - THE PREDOMINANT SITE OF THE LESIONIS THAT OF THE PROXIMAL HUMERUS (37,7%) AND PROXIMAL FEMUR (22,3%). THE CYSTS IN OTHER SITES (LONG TUBULAR BONES, FLAT BONES, CALCANEOUS ETC) ARE RATE. - ALTHOUGH THE STANDARD TEXTS ON OPERATIVE PROCEDURE INVARIABLY STATE THAT THE APPROPRIATE TREATMENT IS CURRETAGE AND BONE GRAFTING THIS DOESN'T SEEM ALWAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. - WE HAVE NOTICED RECURRENCE IN 1/3 OF OUR CASES. - THE TYPE OFBONE GRAFT THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN OUR CASES HAD NOT ANY EFFECT ON THE SUCCESS OF THE SURGICAL PROCEDURE WHICH COULD BE INDICATED AND IN PATHOLOGICAL FRACTURES EVEN. - THE RECENTLY REPORTED TREATMENT INJECTIONS OF CORTICOSTEROIDS INTO THE CAVITY OF CUST SEEMS TO GIVE A RATHER GOOD RESULT.
ΜΟΝΗΡΕΙΣ ΚΥΣΤΕΙΣ ΟΣΤΩΝ, SOLITARY BONE CYST, Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας, Κλινική Ιατρική, Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine
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