Review Article

Treatment of Ganglion Cysts

Table 7


Mean recovery timeTime off work

Open

Janzon and Niechajev 1981 [27] Majority 10–20 days
Jacobs and Govaers 1990 [31]Majority 7–18 days (median 2.5 weeks)
Rocchi et al. 2008 [37]15 days23 days

Open + arthroscopy

Dias and Buch 2003 [6]14.1 days
Dias et al. 2007 [7]10.9 days

Arthroscopy

Luchetti et al. 2000 [39]15 days
Nishikawa et al. 2001 [41]16 days (7–56)
Rocchi et al. 2008 [37]6 days10 days