title: Massive osteolysis of the pelvis, femur and sacral bone with a Gorham-Stout syndrome.
abstract: We report a case of a 49-year-old white woman with Gorham-Stout syndrome. This very rare massive osteolysis occurred in the left pelvis and included the femur and the sacral bone. Histology study revealed typical ectatic vessels covered with endothelium. The therapy of choice in this region is radiotherapy with a dose of 40 Gy. However, in our case this therapy only led to short-term pain relief and cessation of the osteolysis. Stabilization with corticospongious bone did not seem to be effective against the progressing osteolysis.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stöve
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reichelt
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005269:Femur; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010015:Osteolysis, Essential / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010384:Pelvic Bones; D012447:Sacrum; D017211:Treatment Failure