Abstract

Osteoblastoma is a benign bone forming well vascularized tumor with unlimited growth potential. Experience in diagnosis and treatment of 85 children, aged 5 - 18 years, with osteioblastoma is presented. All patients were treated at CITO department of childhood bone pathology and orthopaedics during the period from 1985 to 2015. In 8 patients the course of the disease was aggressive. Results of clinical, roentgenologic and morphologic comparison as well as the analysis of literature data enables to demonstrate the validity of distinguishing the aggressive type of osteoblastoma that is characterized by peculiarities of clinical course and requires special approach to its treatment.

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