Ragnar Calzado Calderón¹, Jessael Eliecer Ramirez Bateca², Vladimir Andres Vasquez Encalada², Alicia Tamayo Figueroa¹, José Enrique Pérez González² and Ingrid Quesada Villa³

¹Specialist in Second Degree of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba
²First Degree Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba
³Specialist in First Degree in Comprehensive General Medicine and First Degree in Pathological Anatomy, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba

*Corresponding Author: Ragnar Calderon Footwear, Specialist in Second Degree of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba.

Received: November 17, 2023; Published: December 16, 2023

Abstract

The patella is an unusual location for any primary or secondary bone tumor, and would rarely be considered a neoplasm in the etiology of anterior knee pain. Plexiform fibrohistiocytic lesions are tumors of very low recurrence. This neoplasm mostly occurs in the second decade of life and its predilection is towards the upper limbs between 40 and 50%, lower limbs between 9-20% Patellar tumors are rare and usually affect young patients. They are often benign, in a proportion of 70%, we present a 17-year-old male case who consults for pain at the level of the right knee of 3 months of evolution and in the studies carried out there is osteolytic image at the level of the kneecap and in the pathological study a plexiform fibrohistiocytoma is diagnosed, total pathelegmy and reconstruction of the extensor mechanism was performed.

Keywords: Plexiform; Fibrohistiocytoma; Patella

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Citation

Citation: Ragnar Calzado Calderón., et al. “Plexiform Fibrohistiocytoma in the Patella".Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 7.1 (2024): 31-33.

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