Localized pigmented villonodular synovitis in a child knee

O. Şahap Atik; Hasan Hüseyin Bozkurt; Efkan Özcan; Batuhan Bahadır; Murat Uçar; Betül Öğüt; Leyla Memiş

doi:10.5606/ehc.2017.00057

O. Şahap Atik¹, Hasan Hüseyin Bozkurt¹, Efkan Özcan¹, Batuhan Bahadır¹, Murat Uçar², Betül Öğüt³, Leyla Memiş³

¹Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Medical Faculty of Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
²Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty of Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
³Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Keywords: Child; knee joint; localized pigmented villonodular synovitis.

Abstract

Pigmented villonodular synovitis is a benign proliferative tumor of the synovium. It is very rare, and most cases occur in the knee joint. In this article, we report a case of localized pigmented villonodular synovitis in the knee joint of a 14-yearold boy. This condition is rare in the knees of the children. We preferred to remove the tumor with arthrotomy instead of arthroscopy for two reasons: (i) the patient was obese, (ii) we thought that recurrence risk was high after arthrotomy.