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Extraosseous aneurysmal bone cyst in a 12-year-old girl

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A soft-tissue aneurysmal bone cyst located on the lateral aspect of the left thigh of a 12-year-old girl is described. Conventional radiography of the thigh was normal. Sonography showed a hypoechoic mass with a feeding vessel and intralesional vascularity. On MRI, it was of predominantly soft-tissue signal intensity with intense enhancement following administration of IV contrast medium. Histopathological examination diagnosed the lesion as a soft-tissue aneurysmal bone cyst. This is the fourth paediatric case of this very rare benign tumour.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Dalnair Street, Yorkhill, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, UK

    Kaseem A. Ajilogba, Harjeet Kaur & Andrew J. Watt

  2. Department of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK

    Rodney Duncan

  3. Department of Pathology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK

    Jeannette H. McFarlane

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Ajilogba, K.A., Kaur, H., Duncan, R. et al. Extraosseous aneurysmal bone cyst in a 12-year-old girl. Pediatr Radiol 35, 1240–1242 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-1560-1

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