Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Reported local recurrence after curettage, resection and amputation for GCT of the hand
From: Rare site giant cell tumors: report of two cases on phalanges of the finger and review of literature
Sl No. | Authors | No. of cases | Curettage ± bone graft | Resection or ray amputation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nos. | Local recurrence | Nos. | Local recurrence | |||
1. | Goldenberg [10] | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
2. | Averill et al. [1] | 28 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 3 |
3. | Wold et al. [4] | 34 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 1 |
4. | Patel et al. [7] | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
5. | Athanasian et al. [6] | 14 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 5 |
6. | Daniel et al. [16] | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
7. | This study | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
64 | 48 (75%) | 38 | 9 (24%) | |||