[The juvenile bone cyst. Diagnosis, therapy and late results. Report about 60 cases (author's transl)]

60 patients were operated for a solitary bone cyst during a 20 years period. In about 50% the patients were between 8 and 14 years old. The quotient male to female was 2:1. In 65% the cyst was located in the femur and humerus. The therapy was in 43 patients autoplasty, in 8 cases heterotransplantation--"Kieler Span", in the other cases resections were carried out. The follow-up study covered 41 patients. The results were excellent in 50%, sufficient in 36%, poor in 12%. The best results were achieved with autoplasty bone chips. Among 43 cases 1 recurrency.