Post-traumatic cysts and cyst-like lesions of bone

Skeletal Radiol. 1989;18(2):93-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00350654.

Abstract

We describe two patients with cyst-like lesions of bone that developed at sites of healed or healing fractures. One case showed histological features of a unicameral bone cyst, which, to the best of our knowledge, is a previously unreported finding in a post-traumatic cyst. It is suggested that there are two principal clinical and radiological types of post-traumatic cyst, of which each of our cases represents an example: (1) asymptomatic transient cortical lesions, found only in children, and (2) more central expanding lesions, found in a wider age group and associated with pain, swelling, and pathological fractures.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Cysts / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Cysts / etiology*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Radiography
  • Radius Fractures / complications*
  • Ulna Fractures / complications*
  • Wound Healing