Giant cell tumor of the metacarpal bones

Giant cell tumor (GCT) of hand bones is rare. We present two cases of GCT of metacarpal bone. One case was treated successfully with ray amputation. The second patient underwent wide resection and tricortical iliac crest bone grafting. Till the last follow-up (at 26 and 70 months respectively) both...

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Autores principales: Saikia, Kabul C, Bhuyan, Sanjeev K, Ahmed, Firoz, Chanda, Debashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.83957
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author Saikia, Kabul C
Bhuyan, Sanjeev K
Ahmed, Firoz
Chanda, Debashish
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description Giant cell tumor (GCT) of hand bones is rare. We present two cases of GCT of metacarpal bone. One case was treated successfully with ray amputation. The second patient underwent wide resection and tricortical iliac crest bone grafting. Till the last follow-up (at 26 and 70 months respectively) both patients have been recurrence free and have returned to their previous occupational activities.
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spelling pubmed-31626892011-09-01 Giant cell tumor of the metacarpal bones Saikia, Kabul C Bhuyan, Sanjeev K Ahmed, Firoz Chanda, Debashish Indian J Orthop Case Report Giant cell tumor (GCT) of hand bones is rare. We present two cases of GCT of metacarpal bone. One case was treated successfully with ray amputation. The second patient underwent wide resection and tricortical iliac crest bone grafting. Till the last follow-up (at 26 and 70 months respectively) both patients have been recurrence free and have returned to their previous occupational activities. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3162689/ /pubmed/21886934 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.83957 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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