Abstract
The term “bone cyst” is commonly used quite inappropriately to designate a variety of conditions of bones that are characterized by a circumscribed, sharply delineated area of radiolucency. Only gas- or fluid-filled intraosseous cavities that are encapsulated can be designated as bone cysts according to the definition. A clear distinction must be made between actual cystic lesions of bone and solid tumors that give a cystic appearance radiographically. When biopsy material from one of these solid tumors is referred to the pathologist as being from a cystic condition, even though there is no true bone cyst from the morphological standpoint, it gives rise to many misunderstandings and much confusion among clinicians and pathologists. According to SALZER-KUNT-SCHIK (10), primary bone cysts (i.e. solitary bone cyst and aneurysmal bone cyst), representing a clinically and morphologically distinctive entity of unknown origin, must be separated from the secondary bone cysts and dysontogenetic bone cysts. These comprise a variety of bone cysts of known origin: (1) cystic cavities due to regressive changes in bone tumors; (2) osteoarthritic cyst; (3) subchondral cyst, synovial cyst, intraosseous ganglia; (4) developmental epithelial cyst; (5) traumatic epithelial cyst; (6) echinococcal cyst; (7) hemophilic pseudotumors.
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Matthiass, H.H., Immenkamp, M. (1976). Surgical Treatment of Solitary Bone Cysts. In: Grundmann, E. (eds) Malignant Bone Tumors. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80997-2_20
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