Introduction: Aneurysmal bone cyst is a benign, most often non-neoplastic lesion affecting the bone. Malignant transformation is reported in certain cases, although rare. It commonly occurs in young adults with around 75% of the cases occurring in the first two decades and 95% occurring in the first 3 decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Osteochondromas are the most common benign bone tumors. They probably are developmental malformations rather than true neoplasms and are thought to originate within the periosteum as small cartilaginous nodules. The lesions consist of a bony mass produced by progressive endochondral ossification of a growing cartilaginous cap.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Skeletal tuberculosis (TB) accounts for approximately 10-35% of the extra-pulmonary cases, where knee TB accounts for around 8% of extra-pulmonary TB cases after hip and spine. In about one-third of patients with extra-pulmonary TB, pulmonary TB is concomitantly found. The management of knee TB poses an initial diagnostic challenge due to its non-specific symptoms and absence of constitutional symptoms after which depending on the response to AKT - surgical intervention open or arthroscopic could be contemplated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The rising demographic trend towards elderly population and increased incidence of osteosynthesis of proximal femur fractures are associated with increased recurrent falls and rise in incidence of peri- implant fractures.
Case Report: Here, we present a difficult case of a peri-implant femur shaft fracture in a 55-year-old male, with stuck short proximal femur nail (PFN) removal followed by long distal femur plating with bone grafting showing good fracture union at 1 year with satisfactory functional outcome.
Conclusion: Peri- implant femur fractures are quite rare and more commonly occur in elderly.