Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity

BACKGROUND: Osteoblastomas are rare lesions comprising 1% of all bone tumors. The occipital bone is one of the rarest affected bone, with only 11 cases reported during the last 40 years. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we describe the clinical presentation and the radiological features of a suboccipital ost...

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Autores principales: Choque-Velasquez, Joham, Colasanti, Roberto, Piippo, Anna, Niemelä, Mika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Neuro-Oncology: Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5369253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458947
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_444_16
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author Choque-Velasquez, Joham
Colasanti, Roberto
Piippo, Anna
Niemelä, Mika
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description BACKGROUND: Osteoblastomas are rare lesions comprising 1% of all bone tumors. The occipital bone is one of the rarest affected bone, with only 11 cases reported during the last 40 years. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we describe the clinical presentation and the radiological features of a suboccipital osteoblastoma that was successfully resected in a 30-year-old man. A short video shows the microsurgical removal of the lesion. There was no recurrence during a 12-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Even if osteoblastomas are benign tumors, a complete removal has to be achieved to reduce the risk of recurrences. This makes necessary an appropriate monitoring of the patient.
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spelling pubmed-53692532017-04-28 Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity Choque-Velasquez, Joham Colasanti, Roberto Piippo, Anna Niemelä, Mika Surg Neurol Int Neuro-Oncology: Case Report BACKGROUND: Osteoblastomas are rare lesions comprising 1% of all bone tumors. The occipital bone is one of the rarest affected bone, with only 11 cases reported during the last 40 years. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we describe the clinical presentation and the radiological features of a suboccipital osteoblastoma that was successfully resected in a 30-year-old man. A short video shows the microsurgical removal of the lesion. There was no recurrence during a 12-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Even if osteoblastomas are benign tumors, a complete removal has to be achieved to reduce the risk of recurrences. This makes necessary an appropriate monitoring of the patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5369253/ /pubmed/28458947 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_444_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Surgical Neurology International 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Neuro-Oncology: Case Report
Choque-Velasquez, Joham
Colasanti, Roberto
Piippo, Anna
Niemelä, Mika
Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title_full Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title_fullStr Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title_full_unstemmed Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title_short Suboccipital osteoblastoma: Microsurgical resection of a rare entity
title_sort suboccipital osteoblastoma: microsurgical resection of a rare entity
topic Neuro-Oncology: Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5369253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458947
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_444_16
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