title: Giant-cell tumor of bone in skeletally immature patients.
abstract: Giant-cell tumor of bone is predominantly an affliction of adults and is rarely found in skeletally immature patients. We are reporting six new cases of histologically confirmed giant-cell tumor of bone in patients with radiographically open epiphyseal plates. These patients account for 1.8 per cent of the 326 giant-cell tumor of bone observed at the Bone Tumor Center of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, Italy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D004838:Epiphyses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005360:Fibula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005870:Giant Cell Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013977:Tibia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*