title: Painful, pediatric sacral aneurysmal bone cyst treated by curettage and fresh frozen allograft.
abstract: In this article, we report a rarely localized sacral aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) successfully treated by curettage and bone grafting with fresh frozen fibular allograft (FFA) in a 14-year-old girl patient. The cyst was at S1-2 level and treated with aggressive curettage and bone grafting with two FFAs. All complaints of the patient resolved at the 24th month of treatment and bony union of the cystic cavity was observed radiologically. Curettage and FFA may be safely used for filling the cavity in the treatment of sacral ABC in pediatric age to provide a structural and biological reinforcement.
authors: Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Afyonkarahisar Şuhut State Hospital, 03800 Şuhut, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. opr.murataydin@gmail.com.
authors: Murat
authors: M
authors: Aydın
authors: Güray
authors: G
authors: Toğral
authors: Fevzi
authors: F
authors: Kekeç
authors: Murat
authors: M
authors: Arıkan
authors: Şafak
authors: Ş
authors: Güngör
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D064591:Allografts; D017824:Bone Cysts, Aneurysmal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D003475:Curettage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012447:Sacrum / Q000473:pathology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous