1. Giant Aneurysmal Bone Cyst
11/1/2014
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2. Giant Aneurysmal Bone Cyst
F.R.C.S.(Eng.), F.R.C.S.(Tr.& Orth.)
Professor of Orthopaedics
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3. Patient profile:
A 9-years old male child, MF, Overweight.
Chief complaint:
Progressive painless swelling of the
right distal thigh of 14 m duration
Referred to us on the
17th Nov. 2008
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4. History of present illness:
4th Sep. 2007, had pain in the distal femur
after a fall while playing.
Diagnosed as pathological fracture of
the distal femur.
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5. 4th Sep. 2007
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6. Treated by complete POP for 3 M
4th Dec. 2007
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7. 19th Jan. 2008
Trivial trauma Supracondylar distal
femur fractures treated by POP for
7 weeks
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8. 19th Jan. 2008
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9. 5th Mar. 2008
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10. Past medical history
=History of two surgical biopsies with
blood transfusion
Diagnosis: Aneurysmal bone cyst
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11. Patient offered the following
advices outside JUH
1- Above Knee Amputation
2- Resection and Joint replacement
3- To be treated abroad
Patient was wheel chair dependent
since the start of treatment.
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12. Lesion contineued to grow
6th June 2008
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13. 26th Sep. 2008
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14. Physical examination:
17th Nov. 2008
General: no abnormality detected
Right lower limb:
= Diffuse swelling of the knee and lower thigh with
10 cm diameter difference form the left thigh
(firm, not tender, not pulsatile)
=Decreased knee ROM due to the bulky swelling
=Normal distal NV examination
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25. Surgery at JUH
19th Nov. 2008
First stage
Local curretage of the cyst +
application of monoplanar external
fixator + Circular Ex.Fix. (across
the knee joint) Ilizarov Frame.
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26. Problems
1- Difficult to apply Tourniquet
2- Lateral Scar of previous surgery
3-Soft bone (prolonged disuse)
4-Extensive bleeding
5-Overweight
6-Residual defect after resection.
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27. Packing the cyst after surgery to stop
bleeding.
Received in the perioperative period
= 5.5 L R/L
= 4 U PRBC’s
= 10 U FFP
Role of anaesthetic team
in the management
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28. =Transferred to the ICU and kept
there till 24/11
=Initially DIC W/up +ve
=21st Nov. 2008 R/O pack
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35. 16th Dec. 2008
2nd stage Surgery
= Under tourniquet, Anterior approach,
Complete resection of the cyst.
=Turbid hematoma was found inside
the cavity.
=Delay reconstruction of the bone
defect till results of C&S.
=Bone cement spacer was inserted.
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40. 3nd stage Surgery
23rd Dec. 2008
1. Removal of Cement spacer
2. Strut tibial autograft from the mid
ipsilateral tibia, to femur and
stabilized by long screws to the
ilizarov frame.
3. Application of ilizarov to tibia +
bone marrow inserted.
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48. 5th Jan. 2009
Admitted as a case popliteal fossa
swelling to R/O organised hematoma
U/S: no definite fluid collection but
significant soft tissue edema.
= Percutaneous evacuation of hematoma,
=R/O Orthofix and application of long
Ilizarov plate externally and fixed to the
graft by Schanz screws
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49. Followed regularly in OPD
Partial weight bearing was started
in the on 21st Jan. 2009.
Now FWB on crutches
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50. 25th March 2009
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52. With Ilizarov family
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53. ABC
In 1942, Jaffe and Lichtenstein
first described ABC when they
discovered "a peculiar blood
containing cyst of large size.
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54. Benign Aggressive Bone
TuLmoocar lly destructive yet do not
metastasize or show malignant
changes at a cellular levelcellular
level
ABC, GCT, CMF,
Chondroblastoma,
Osteoblastoma.
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55. ABCs represent 1%–2% of all
primary bone lesions
WHO
Blood-filled spaces of variable
size,separated by CT containing
trabeculae of bone or osteoid
tissue and osteoclast giant cells
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56. D.Dx
Giant Cell tumour
Aneurysmal bone cyst
Telangiectatic osteosarcoma
Secondary ABC –upto 35% of all ABCs
Most commonly due to GCT (39%)
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61. Treatment depends on
site & size of the lesion.
Local recurrence rate after
classic surgical procedures
(curettage and grafting) is about
11.8%–30.8%
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