Abstract | INTRODUCTION: METHOD: RESULTS: Except for one patient, all the patients of the regular group maintained pain-free state. Eight out of the 12 patients of the regular group were free of pain even after discontinuing NSAIDs in the average of 18.3 months (range 2-36 months). Because one patient of the regular group required twice the usual dose to maintain pain-free state, we performed surgical excision. The remaining three patients of the regular group were asymptomatic and still taking NSAIDs. The healing rate of the osteoid osteoma with regular dose of NSAIDs was 8/12 (67%) at the time of this study, which may be improved up to 11/12 (92%). On the other hand, mean period of time until spontaneous diminution of pain in the 14 patients conservatively observed without NSAIDs so far reported in the literature was 75 months (range 24-180 months). CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Takahiro Goto, Yusuke Shinoda, Tomotake Okuma, Koichi Ogura, Yusuke Tsuda, Kiyofumi Yamakawa, Takahiro Hozumi |
Journal | Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
(Arch Orthop Trauma Surg)
Vol. 131
Issue 5
Pg. 619-25
(May 2011)
ISSN: 1434-3916 [Electronic] Germany |
PMID | 20737157
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Bone Neoplasms
(drug therapy, pathology)
- Cervical Vertebrae
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Osteoma, Osteoid
(drug therapy, pathology)
- Sclerosis
- Spinal Neoplasms
(drug therapy, pathology)
- Young Adult
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