Desmoplastic fibroma. Aggressive curettage as a surgical alternative for treatment.
In this article, the authors present 5 patients with desmoplastic fibroma and review the literature. Four patients had aggressive curettage with bone graft, and 1 had aggressive curettage alone. Although the literature reports that many patients have recurrence after curettage, there have been no recurrences in these 5 patients during followup periods ranging from 5 years 6 months to 9 years. Although wide excision has been recommended in the literature, treatment with aggressive curettage achieved clinical and radiographic control of the lesions for at least an intermediate duration of followup.
Nishida
J
J
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
Tajima
K
K
Abe
M
M
Honda
M
M
Inomata
Y
Y
Shimamura
T
T
Shiraishi
H
H
Satoh
T
T
Ehara
S
S
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D003475:Curettage / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D018220:Fibroma, Desmoplastic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous