Affiliation:
1. I. HORBACHEVSKY TERNOPIL NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, TERNOPIL, UKRAINE
2. SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, SUMY, UKRAINE
Abstract
The aim: To analyze scientific data on the problems of disorders of bone morphogenesis in children, in particular, non-ossifying fibroma. To analyze modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of this disease in the context of the latest scientific achievements.
Materials and methods: The latest data of scientists from the world’s leading clinics describing various forms of fibrous skeletal lesions in children of differ¬ent ages were analyzed. We examined a boy with fibrous lesions of the cortical layer of the knee joint bones and a girl with a large fibrous focus of the distal femoral metaphysis, which resulted in a closed pathological bone fracture. Surgical treatment, osteosynthesis, marginal resection of the tumor, bone grafting and histological examination were conducted.
Conclusions: Despite numerous studies of this disease, the etiopathogenesis of this disease has not been studied. There are no early symptoms of fibrous bone lesions in children. Diagnosis is possible only when a pathological fracture of the affected bone occurs due to extensive growth of fibrous tissue and a significant decrease in the mechanical strength of the bone. Most cases of recognition of such a disease occur accidentally when performing X-ray examinations for other reasons - bruises, sprains, arthralgias, osteochondropathy, infectious diseases, etc. It is known that boys are more mobile and require more frequent X-ray examinations for limb injuries than girls, so the likelihood of accidental detection of such changes increases significantly. Thus, long-term observations of children with fibrous bone lesions have shown that after 40 years, patients rarely developed malignant tumors - osteogenic sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, malignant fibroma of tubular bones, pelvic bones.
There are no early symptoms of fibrous bone lesions in children. Recognition of such a disease occurs by chance when X-ray examinations are performed for other reasons.
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