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A comparison of treating Unicameral bone cyst using steroids and percutaneous autologous bone marrow aspiration
Muhammad Akram1, Faheem Mubashir Farooqi1, Muhammad Latif Shahzad1
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology Unit-1, Mayo Hospital, Lahore.
Objective:
To compare the results of percutaneous autologous bone aspiration injection and steroids injections in the treatment of unicameral bone cyst.
Methods:
The prospective study was conducted at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, from January 2008 to March 2014, and comprised patients diagnosed radiologically as a case of unicameral bone cyst. The patients were divided into two groups, with group 1 being treated with bone marrow aspiration injection, while group 2 was given steroids injection. Aspiration of bone marrow was done from tibial tuberosity.
Results:
The 30 patients in the study were divided into two groups of 15(50%) each. In group 1, 8(53.34%) patients and in group 2, 3 (20%) patients achieved healing after the first injection (p<0.05), while overall success rates were 13(86.67%) in group 1, and 11(73.33%) in group 2 (p> 0.05). The mean number of procedures required in group 1 was 1.57± 0.495 (range: 01-3) and for 2.19 ± 1.076 (range: 1-5) in group 2 (p<0.05), and mean interval-to-healing was 14.3 months ± 8.705 (range: 7-36) for group 1 and 12.5 months ± 7.88 (range: 4-32) for group 2 (p> 0.05).
Conclusions:
Bone marrow aspiration injection was better than steroids in treating unicameral bone cyst.
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