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Giant-Cell Lesion in a Sesamoid Bone of the Thumb

From the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, SUNY at Buffalo and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

Correspondence: J. W. Pritehett MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pacific Medical Center, 1200 – 12^th Avenue South, Seattle WA, USA.

We treated a 72-year-old woman by excision of the right thumb sesamoid which contained a giant-cell lesion. Nine years later she had normal function and no evidence of other lesions, recurrence or metastasis. We recommend that the diagnosis of giant-cell reparative granuloma and giant-cell tumour be considered when a bony mass in a sesamoid bone is discovered. Surgical excision at least in our one case was definitive treatment.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 23, No. 2, 279-280 (1998)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(98)80198-8


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