Medical management compared with operative treatment for osteoid-osteoma.

摘要: Twenty-four patients were evaluated and diagnosed, between August 1975 July 1989, as having probable osteoid-osteoma. Fifteen had operative treatment (twelve immediate three delayed); all fifteen complete relief of pain. The remaining nine treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications; pain, six resolution the symptoms without using drugs, after an average thirty-three months (range, thirty to forty months) treatment. Thus, long-term administration drugs can often be effective excision for osteoid-osteoma, morbidity that is associated operation, especially in whom would complex or might lead disability.