Prevalence and characteristics of benign cartilaginous tumours of the shoulder joint. An MRI-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Enchondromas (EC) of the shoulder joint are benign intraosseous cartilage neoplasms, with atypical cartilaginous tumours (ACT) representing their intermediate counterpart. They are usually found incidentally on clinical imaging performed for other reasons. Thus far the prevalence of ECs of the shoulder has been analysed in only one study reaching a figure of 2.1%.

Materials and methods

The aim of the current study was to validate this number via retrospective analysis of a 45 times larger, uniform cohort consisting of 21.550 patients who had received an MRI of the shoulder at a single radiologic centre over a time span of 13.2 years.

Results

Ninety-three of 21.550 patients presented with at least one cartilaginous tumour. Four patients showed two lesions at

SUBMITTER: Woltsche JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10661778 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature