title: Giant-cell lesion in a sesamoid bone of the thumb.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, SUNY at Buffalo, USA.
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Pritchett
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006101:Granuloma, Giant Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012716:Sesamoid Bones / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013933:Thumb / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*