Giant cell tumor of bone Symptoms and Signs

Giant cell tumor of bone have non-specific symptoms, when the lesion damage and stimulate periosteal cortical bone, or pathological fractures occur, they can produce clinical symptoms. Like with the majority of bone tumors, it can be often found due to localized swelling and pain.

1. Giant cell tumor of bone Symptoms: varying degrees of clinical symptoms, when they seek medical treatment in general and not related to tumor size. Some patients with pathological fractures due to the treatment, when treatment has a wide range of bone destruction.

1) pain: early seen, generally not sharp. Generated due to tumor growth, caused by increased intramedullary pressure. Occurred in the spine, the tumor can be nerve or spinal cord, resulting in radiating pain or paraplegia for the corresponding nerve. A small number of pathological fracture patients.

2) local swelling, lump: There is no later than the pain and swelling are relatively light, and as a result of changes in bone and shell expansion due to reactive edema. Such as cortical lesions penetrate to form a soft tissue mass, the apparent swelling. Swelling gradually increased slowly, sometimes rapidly increasing, mostly due to tumor hemorrhage.

3) joint dysfunction: a long bone side of the local infiltration of tumor response could result in joint dysfunction. Articular cartilage tumor perforation rarely, but can be caused by the collapse of articular surface or weak, and sometimes a larger tumor volume, the scope of more than joints, but X-ray films of the articular cartilage surface seen yet complete, this is one of the characteristics of the tumor.

2. Giant cell tumor of bone Signs
1) increased local skin temperature, vein revealed: that the focus of local hyperemia and reaction zone, in particular, cortical destruction, soft tissue mass formation, the skin temperature increased significantly, but also rich with the blood of the tumor.

2) complete and thick shell of bone when the masses hit hard and tough, thin shell of bone can be flexible. Shell of bone destruction with or without bone shell, the mass was cystic. Sometimes pulsatile tumor showed that tumor hyperemia significantly.
3) occurred in the spinal giant cell tumor of bone can be caused by vertebral compression fractures, spinal cord injury and paraplegia. At sacrum sacral area can cause pain, numbness, and become obstacles.