Giant cell tumour of the scapula treated by partial scapulectomy

Giant cell tumour is a benign, but locally aggressive tumour. It most commonly affects the epiphysial-metaphyseal region of long bones, but rarely in flat bones. We present you a case of 26-year-old man with a large giant cell tumour of the inferior angle of the scapula. The patient was treated with...

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Autor principal: Kapoor, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30796083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228424
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description Giant cell tumour is a benign, but locally aggressive tumour. It most commonly affects the epiphysial-metaphyseal region of long bones, but rarely in flat bones. We present you a case of 26-year-old man with a large giant cell tumour of the inferior angle of the scapula. The patient was treated with partial scapulectomy with complete resection of tumour. There was excellent retention of shoulder function postoperatively.
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spelling pubmed-63888832019-03-12 Giant cell tumour of the scapula treated by partial scapulectomy Kapoor, Amit BMJ Case Rep Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury Giant cell tumour is a benign, but locally aggressive tumour. It most commonly affects the epiphysial-metaphyseal region of long bones, but rarely in flat bones. We present you a case of 26-year-old man with a large giant cell tumour of the inferior angle of the scapula. The patient was treated with partial scapulectomy with complete resection of tumour. There was excellent retention of shoulder function postoperatively. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6388883/ /pubmed/30796083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228424 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388883/
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