Hip Joint Osteochondroma: Systematic Review of the Literature and Report of Three Further Cases

Table 3

Literature review. Surgical treatments for solitary proximal femoral osteochondroma in previous studies.

Author and date	Number of patients	Age in years	Gender	Location of the lesion	Procedure	Follow-up period	Complications
Yu et al., 2010 [13]	One	39	Male	Posterior FN^1	Excision through a posterior approach	22 months	Not reported.
Siebenrock and Ganz, 2002 [14]	Four	26; 30; 20; 39	Male; Female; Male; Female	(1) Posterior inferior FN; (2) Anterior, inferior, and posterior FN; (3) Anteroinferior FN; (4) Inferior FN	Excision through lateral approach and digastric trochanteric osteotomy followed by; (i) surgical hip dislocation in two patients,; (ii) hip subluxation in the other two patients	18–48 month	One patient had intermittent pain in greater trochanter area on follow-ups.
Tschokanow, 1969 [15]	Two	33; 36	Male; Male	Lesser trochanter; Lesser trochanter	Anterior approach; Anterior and lateral approach (staged procedures with 2-month interval)	Not specified	Femoral vein injury and sciatic nerve palsy. Postoperative wound infection.; Not reported.
Feeley and Kelly, 2009 [27]	One	37	Female	Anterior FN	Excision by hip arthroscopy	Six months	Not reported.
Hussain et al., 2010 [25]	One	24	Male	Posterior FN	Excision through posterolateral approach	Seven months	Persisted pain due to FA^2 impingement.
Ramos-Pascua et al., 2012 [19]	Six	20; 45; 50; 66; 28; 29	Male; Male; Male; Female; Female; Male	Medial FN; Anterior FN; Medial FN; Medial FN; Anterior FN; Anterior FN	Excision through anterior approach in 3 patients, and by posterolateral approach on the other 3 patients.	From 2 to 20 years	One patient had basicervical fracture and was treated successfully with no sequelae.
Li et al., 2012 [6]	One	11	Male	Medial and posterior FN	Excision through a surgical hip dislocation (digastric approach)	Seven years	Not reported.
Jones and Kinninmonth, 2005 [8]	One	18		Posteroinferior FN	Excision through posterior approach	Not specified	?
Liu et al., 2010 [23]	One	Six	Male	Posterior FN	Excision through lateral approach	Four years	Not reported.
Learmonth and Raymakers, 1993 [12]	One	13	Female	At the femoral epiphyseal plate	Excision through Smith-Peterson approach	Not specified	?
Magid et al., 1996 [24]	One	14	Female	FN (exact location is not specified)	Excision through posterior approach	Nine months	Non reported
Muzaffar et al., 2012 [18]	One	22	Female	Base of FN	Excision through posterolateral approach	Not specified	?

¹Femoral neck. ²Femoroacetabular.