摘要 |
Intraosseous lipomas are among the rarest benign bone tumors. As intraosseous
lipomas appear similar to simple bone cyst, infarctions and other lesions on plain
films, they are sometimes misdiagnosed. Therefore, the diagnosis should correlate
with clinical, radiological and pathological findings. Traditional surgical treatment of
this tumor is complete excision and bone graft. However, the donor site morbidity is
sometimes very painful. We report a 39-year-old female patient with intraosseous
lipoma of the calcaneus treated by an autogenous bone marrow graft. Preoperatively,
she had suffered from persistent right heel pain for 2 months following ankle sprain.
On follow-up 20 weeks after the operation, the result was satisfactory. Hence, we recommend
considering an autogenous bone marrow graft to treat intraosseous lipoma
of the calcaneus in patients with symptoms, after comparing current treatments of
bone grafting and bone graft substitutes. |