The surgical management of the cavity and bone defects in enchondroma cases: A prospective randomized trial.

Background: We compared the curettage/bone grafting and the curettage/bone graft substitutes surgical techniques in their relation to functional outcomes, oncologic outcome (recurrence, malignant transformation), the rate of postsurgical complications, durations of surgery and of postsurgical immobilization for hand-localized cases of solitary and multiple enchondromas.

Methods: The current prospective randomized trial analyzed 200 adult patients (2012-2017) with enchondroma who underwent surgical intervention. The cases were randomly divided into Group 1 (n = 100; F 56, M 44) for surgeries with curettage and autogenous bone grafting, and Group 2 (n = 100; F 55, M 45) for surgeries with curettage and bone graft substitutes.

The distribution of chondromas: Why the hand?

Chondroma is a benign hyaline cartilage tumor and is a relatively common skeletal neoplasm. Uneven distribution of this tumor among the various bones and regions of the skeleton is known but no explanation of this phenomenon followed. The current research aimed to document the exact chondroma distribution in the body.