Osteoid Osteoma

Vinod NaneriaGirish Yeotikar

Arjun WadhwaniChoithram Hospital & Research Centre, Indore

India

Osteoid Osteoma

• Benign neoplasm most often seen in young males.

• Found in the first three decades of life, occasionally reported in older patients.

• Incidence is 13.5% in all benign tumors of bones.

• M/F ratio is 4:1.• Bergstrand -first described in 1930.• Jaffe in 1935 - first to recognize it as a unique

entity.

Osteoid Osteoma

• Any bone can be involved, • There is a predilection for the lower extremity,

with half the cases involving the femur or tibia.

• The tumor may be found in cortical or cancellous bone, producing a distinct x-ray appearance of cortical sclerosis.

• 5% of tumors are subperiosteal.

Osteoid Osteoma

• Multicentric foci have been reported. • No malignant change has ever been

documented. • The typical patient has pain that is worse

at night and relieved by aspirin.

Osteoid Osteoma

• When the lesion is near a joint, swelling, stiffness, and contracture may occur.

• When in a vertebra, scoliosis may occur. • Occasionally, osteoid osteoma occurs

with minimal pain. • In children, overgrowth and angular

deformities may occur.

Osteoid Osteoma - Diagnosis

• Routine roentgenograms often are diagnostic, but bone scans or CT are often required to localize the lesion accurately.

Osteoid Osteoma

• CT may detect the nidus, whereas roentgenograms show only sclerosis.

Osteoid Osteoma - CT

• CT is more accurate than MRI. • CT helped in confirming the diagnosis of

osteoid osteoma in 74% of cases.• Szendroi et al reported accuracies of about 66%

in the diagnosis of intra-articular lesions and 90% in extra-articular lesions.

• To date, CT scanning is the primary investigational tool for the definitive diagnosis of osteoid osteoma.

Osteoid Osteoma – Bone scan

• To date, no negative bone-scan findings have been reported in patients with osteoid osteoma.

• Bone scanning is currently the most accurate means of localizing the tumour.

• Wells et al noted that the sensitivity of skeletal bone scan for osteoid osteoma is 100%.

Osteoid Osteoma – Bone scan

• A bone scan is helpful in detecting the "double-density sign," which is a focal area of increased activity with a second smaller area of increased uptake superimposed on it, is said to be diagnostic of osteoid osteoma.

Osteoid Osteoma - MRI

• MRI has not been useful in the diagnosis of osteoid osteoma.

• MRI is reserved for equivocal cases because it can suggest the diagnosis of osteoid osteoma.

• MRI interpretation may result in errors in diagnosis, most often confusion with malignancies.

Natural History

• The literature suggests a history of resolving pain and healing of the lesions.

• The course of this disease is unpredictable and protracted, with intervals of resolution of pain that sometimes last 6-15 years.

Natural History - Stages

• Atar et al (1992) described 2 stages of the disease.

• The first is an acutely painful stage that lasts 18-36 months, during which patients require steady use of analgesics.

• The second is the recovery stage, which includes healing of the nidus and which usually takes 3-7 years.

Natural History

• Barei et al noted that healing involves ossification of the untreated nidus, which cannot be readily distinguished from surrounding bone and which resembles a localized zone of cortical hypertrophy.

Osteoid Osteoma - Tx

• En bloc resection• The entire nidus must be removed. • Block resection of the nidus.

• Unroofing and curettage• An alternative method - shave the reactive

bone with a sharp osteotome until the nidus is encountered, then curettage of the exposed nidus.

Osteoid Osteoma - Tx

• Intraoperative localization of the nidus is possible with preoperatively injected technetium-labeled methylene diphosphonate and a sterile, wrapped Geiger counter.

Osteoid Osteoma - Tx

• Excision of the osteoid osteoma nidus using CT–assisted localization, a Kirschner wire inserted into the nidus, and a biopsy punch inserted over the Kirschner wire into the bone.

• They recommend using a trephine 2 mm larger than the lesion for complete removal.

• Recurrence after apparently complete excision has been reported but is rare.

• A CT guided needle was passed to localize the lesion.

• Through an anterior "Hernia" approach the lesion was approached and excised.

• The Follow-up CT Scanning done to reveal complete removal of lesion.

• A biopsy confirmed it later.

Post op – after drilling

CT – Guided Drilling

• OPD procedure,• Localization of the nidus in CT Scan,• Local anesthesia,• K-wire passed into nidus,• Transferred to OT,• Short GA,• Drilling of the nidus by a cannulated drill,• Complete relief of pain.

Referrence

CT-guided percutaneous drilling is a safe and reliable method of treating osteoid osteomas -

Edgard Eduard Engel, Nelson Fabrício Gava,

Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa,Filipe Almeida Botter

• doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-34Engel et al.: CT-guided percutaneous drilling is a safeand reliable method of treating osteoid osteomas. SpringerPlus

2013 2:34.

Summary

• Traditional open surgical treatment consists of en bloc resection and unroofing and curettage, which is the treatment of choice. The rate of primary cure is approximately 100%.

• Disadvantages include perioperative morbidity, extended hospital stay, perioperative fractures, a need for bone grafts or internal fixation, periarticular stiffness, and delayed functional recovery. The recurrence rate is 9-28%.

Summary

• Minimally invasive surgical treatments include radionuclide-guided excision, CT-guided percutaneous excision, percutaneous laser photocoagulation, percutaneous radiofrequency coagulation, and computer-assisted surgery.

• Success rates can reach approximately 100%. Disadvantages include incomplete resection in 35% of patients, persistence of symptoms in 23%, and recurrence in 12%.

DISCLAIMER• Information contained and transmitted by this presentation is based on

personal experience and collection of cases at Choithram Hospital & Research centre, Indore, India, during last 34 years.

• It is intended for use only by the students of orthopaedic surgery. • Views and opinion expressed in this presentation are personal.• Depending upon the x-rays and clinical presentations viewers can make

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