Treatment of Ganglion Cysts

Table 4

		FU	Recurrence rate
Open excision
Angelides and Wallace 1976 [26]	Dorsal	9 months–25 years	3/346 (0.87%)
Janzon and Niechajev 1981 [27]		5 years	21/144 (15%)
Clay and Clement 1988 [28]	Dorsal	28 months (12–74 months)	2/51 (3.9%)
Watson et al. 1989 [29, 30]	Dorsal and palmar	16 years	0/10 (0%)
Jacobs and Govaers 1990 [31]	Palmar	70 months (3–220)	20/71 (28%)
Wright et al. 1994 [13]	Palmar	5 years (2–11 years)	14/72 (19%)
Filan and Herbert 1996 [32]	Recurrent dorsal	14 months (12–22)	0/7 (0%)
Hwang et al. 1999 [33]	Dorsal		1/19 (5.3%)
Faithfull and Seeto 2000 [34]	Dorsal and palmar	65 months (6–133)	6/59 (10%)
Gündeş et al. 2000 [35]	24 dorsal	27 months (6–48)	8.3%
	16 volar		31.2%
Akkerhuis et al. 2002 [20]	Wrist and foot	12 months	11/46 (24%)
Limpaphayom and Wilairatana 2004 [23]	Dorsal	6 months	2/11 (18%)
Kang et al. 2008 [36]	Dorsal	12 months	2/23 (8.7%)
Rocchi et al. 2008 [37]	Palmar	24 months	1/25 (4%)
Arthroscopy + open
Dias and Buch 2003 [6]	Palmar	5 years	33/79 (42%)
Dias et al. 2007 [7]	Dorsal	70 months	40/103 (39%)
Arthroscopic resection
Osterman and Raphael 1995 [38]	Dorsal		0/18 (0%)
Luchetti et al. 2000 [39]	Dorsal	16 months	2/34 (5.9%)
Ho et al. 2001 [40]	Dorsal	25 months (6–44)	5/19 (26%)
	Palmar	16.4 months (10–25)	0/5 (0%)
Nishikawa et al. 2001 [41]	Dorsal	20 months	2/37 (5.4%)
Shih et al. 2002 [42]	Dorsal	26.8 months (15–37)	0/32 (0%)
Rizzo et al. 2004 [43]	Dorsal	47.8 months (28–97)	2/41 (4.9%)
Mathoulin et al. 2004 [44]	Dorsal	34 months (12–46)	4/96 (4.2%)
	Palmar	26 months (12–39)	0/32 (0%)
Rocchi et al. 2006 [45]	Dorsal and palmar	15 months (3–26)	2/47 (4.3%)
Kang et al. 2008 [36]	Dorsal	12 months	2/28 (7.1%)
Rocchi et al. 2008 [37]	Palmar	24 months	3/25 (12%)
Edwards and Johansen 2009 [46]	Dorsal	Min. 24 months	0/55 (0%)
Chen et al. 2010 [47]	Dorsal and palmar	15.3 months	1/15 (6.7%)