Giant cell tumour of bone

Case contributed by Farzin Soltan Mohammadlou , 20 Jan 2013
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Varun Babu, 9 Jan 2016

Updates to Case Attributes

Age was set to 25.
Race changed from Middle eastern to .
Presentation was changed:
23 years old,female ,with chief complaintChief complaints of left proximal legthigh andknee pain fromsince 6 months before visit with orthopaedic service . knee pain has increasingPain increases with walking and activationactivity.
Body was changed:

This patient underwent surgery with open excisional biopsy excisional biopsy and her pathology was GCT(Giant Cell tumorxellctumor). At 2ndSecond surgery, the whole tumour hadwas removed and tumour space hadbed was filled with cement and proximal tibia had fixed with plate.

  • -<p>This patient underwent surgery with open excisional biopsy and her pathology was GCT(Giant Cell tumor). At 2nd surgery, whole tumour had removed and tumour space had filled with cement and proximal tibia had fixed with plate.</p>
  • +<p>This patient underwent surgery with open excisional biopsy and her pathology was GCT(Giant xellctumor). Second surgery the whole tumour was removed and tumour bed was filled with cement and proximal tibia fixed with plate.</p>
Diagnostic Certainty was set to .

Updates to Study Attributes

Caption was added:
Zoomed frontal radiograph of knee
Findings was added:

A well defined lytic, eccentric medullary epimetaphyseal lesion with diaphyseal extension is seen along the lateral aspect of proximal tibia with cortical thinning and breach. Fairly narrow zone of transition in a mature skeleton. 

Images Changes:

Image X-ray (Frontal) ( update )

Perspective was set to Frontal.
Single Or Stack Root was set to .

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was added:

CT demonstrates the cortical breach and associated soft tissue component. 

Images Changes:

Image CT (non-contrast) ( update )

Perspective was set to Axial.
Single Or Stack Root was set to .
Specifics was set to non-contrast.

Image CT (non-contrast) ( update )

Perspective was set to Coronal.
Single Or Stack Root was set to .
Specifics was set to non-contrast.

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was added:

Bone scan identifies increased uptake in the lesion. 

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