Post-traumatic cysts and cyst-like lesions of bone.
We describe two patients with cyst-like lesions of bone that developed at sites of healed or healing fractures. One case showed histological features of a unicameral bone cyst, which, to the best of our knowledge, is a previously unreported finding in a post-traumatic cyst. It is suggested that there are two principal clinical and radiological types of post-traumatic cyst, of which each of our cases represents an example: (1) asymptomatic transient cortical lesions, found only in children, and (2) more central expanding lesions, found in a wider age group and associated with pain, swelling, and pathological fractures.
Moore
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Department of Radiology, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
King
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Travis
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Allen
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D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000150:complications*; D014458:Ulna Fractures / Q000150:complications*; D014945:Wound Healing