A Suspected Pelvic Aneurysmal Bone Cyst in Pregnancy

A Suspected Pelvic Aneurysmal Bone Cyst in Pregnancy

Albeit rare, the majority of identified bone lesions in pregnancy spare the pelvis. Once encountered with a pelvic bone lesion in pregnancy, the obstetrician may face a challenging situation as it is difficult to determine and predict the effects that labor and parturition impart on the pelvic bones. Bone changes and pelvic bone fractures have been well documented during childbirth. The data re...

Pelvic aneurysmal bone cyst

This paper describes an extremely rare case of a huge aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) in the pelvis, occurring in the patient's 5(th) decade of life. The patient presented with a history of painless huge pelvic mass for 10 years. Plain radiograph and computed tomography showed huge expansile lytic lesion arising from the right iliac bone. A biopsy was performed and histology confirmed diagnosis of a...

Aneurysmal Bone Cyst: a Case Report

Aneurysmal bone cysts mostly occur in long bones and spine. It is relatively rare in the maxillofacial region. In this article, we present a 19-year- old woman with the complaint of swelling in the left mandibular premolar tooth. She had got antibiotic therapy after the diagnosis of dental cellulites. On the X-ray study, a well- defined unilocular bony lesion within the preapical premolar tooth...

Aneurysmal bone cyst.

Lichtenstein in 1942 and consists essentially of fibrous tissue honeycombed by vascular spaces. The lesion has been observed in many parts of the skeleton but it occurs especially in the shafts of long bones and in the vertebral column. It causes localised distension and destruction of the affected bone, limited peripherally by a thin bony shell (Fig. 1). In the past the lesion has usually been...

Aneurysmal bone cyst.