An Active Giant Cell Tumor of the Patella: A Case Report

Primary neoplasms of the patella account for less than 1% of all primary bone tumors of the lower extremity, the most frequent of them being the giant cell tumor of bone, the chondroblastoma, and the aneurysmal bone cyst. Herein, we report the case of a 29-year-old woman with an active giant cell tu...

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Autores principales: Slavchev, Svetoslav A, Georgiev, Georgi P, Patrikov, Kircho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142790
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1642
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description Primary neoplasms of the patella account for less than 1% of all primary bone tumors of the lower extremity, the most frequent of them being the giant cell tumor of bone, the chondroblastoma, and the aneurysmal bone cyst. Herein, we report the case of a 29-year-old woman with an active giant cell tumor of the patella (GCTP) with its clinical and radiological features and a brief review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-56695262017-11-15 An Active Giant Cell Tumor of the Patella: A Case Report Slavchev, Svetoslav A Georgiev, Georgi P Patrikov, Kircho Cureus Orthopedics Primary neoplasms of the patella account for less than 1% of all primary bone tumors of the lower extremity, the most frequent of them being the giant cell tumor of bone, the chondroblastoma, and the aneurysmal bone cyst. Herein, we report the case of a 29-year-old woman with an active giant cell tumor of the patella (GCTP) with its clinical and radiological features and a brief review of the literature. Cureus 2017-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5669526/ /pubmed/29142790 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1642 Text en Copyright © 2017, Slavchev et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr An Active Giant Cell Tumor of the Patella: A Case Report
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title_short An Active Giant Cell Tumor of the Patella: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669526/
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