Giant Cell Tumor: A Rare Condition in the Immature Skeleton—A Retrospective Study of Symptoms, Treatment, and Outcome in 16 Children

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Sex	Age at diagnosis (years)	Symptom duration; (months)	Affected; bone	Localization; in bone	Type of operation/reconstruction	Recurrence	Multicentric disease	Follow-up time (months)
Patient 1	M	14	1	Tibia	P-MD	Curettage + cement	−	−	119
Patient 2	F	14	6	Tibia	P-EM	Curettage + cement	−	+	220
Patient 3	F	12	48	Fibula	P-MD	Excision	−	−	50
Patient 4	F	15	2	Tibia	D-M	Curettage + cement	−	−	48
Patient 5	F	6	1	Fibula	D-MD	Curettage + cement	+	−	81
Patient 6	F	9	1	Tibia	P-E	Curettage + cement	−	−	72
Patient 7	F	15	5	Fibula	D-MD	Curettage + autograft	−	−	50
Patient 8	M	15	6	Radius	D-EMD	Curettage + allograft	+	−	35
Patient 9	F	10	4	Sacrum	P	Curettage + cement	−	−	90
Patient 10	F	4	2	Clavicle	P	Curettage + cement	−	−	52
Patient 11	M	6	2	Clavicle	D	Curettage + cement	−	−	59
Patient 12	F	8	5	Sacrum	P	Curettage	−	−	47
Patient 13	F	10	1	Clavicle	D	Curettage + cement	−	−	50
Patient 14	F	8	12	3.metatarsal		Curettage + allograft	−	−	28
Patient 15	M	9	2	Scapula		Curettage	−	−	19
Patient 16	F	10	6	3.metatarsal		Curettage	−		17

Male (M), female (F), proximal (P), distal (D), epiphyseal (E), metaphyseal (M), and diaphyseal (D).