[Comparison of treatment of juvenile bone cysts using local administration of corticoids and surgical therapy].

The authors describe the results of the juvenile bone cyst in the group of 41 patients by the method of the application of corticoids and compare them with the results of the therapy by means of excochleation and filling the cavity of the cyst with bone grafts. In the therapy by corticoids restitutio ad integrum was achieved in 37.8 per cent and in 43.2 per cent of patients the healing was incomplete. In 5.5 per cent of cases there occurred recurrence after the cyst was healed, in 13.5 per cent there was no response to the application of corticoids. In the groups of surgically treated patients the cyst was healed in 68.8 per cent, out of which 48 per cent was restitutio ad integrum. The number of recurrence was relatively high--31.2 per cent. Both methods have their place in the therapy of bone cysts. The surgical approach makes it possible to achieve more quickly restitutio ad integrum in extensive bone cysts located at lower extremities. For the cysts affecting the humerus the method of choice is the local application of corticoids. In the therapy by steroids the authors the necessity of regular control and in case of the survival of the cyst the necessity of repeating the instillation of the steroid.