Patient's question:
A few days ago, I started experiencing body aches and high fever. After taking medicine and getting intravenous drips, the fever didn't go down. Later, I had a full-body check-up and found out it was chondromyxoid fibroma. I've never heard of this disease, and there's no history of it in my family. The doctor said surgery needs to be done as soon as possible. What kind of assistance is needed: How is chondromyxoid fibroma treated effectively?Doctor's answer:
Chondromyxoid fibroma can be treated with intralesional excision after frozen biopsy. The bone-periosteum and articular cartilage involved by the tumor must be resected. Several centimeters of deep bone wall may be resected, or carbolic acid may be used. The cavity can be filled with bone cement, and sometimes a layer of autologous cancellous bone is placed between the articular cartilage and bone cement. When the joint surface must be resected, bone-cartilage grafting (allograft femoral head, autologous patella) can be used. In rare cases with severe expansion or extensive local disease, marginal or wide excision is required, resecting part or all of the joint segment, and functional reconstruction is performed using allograft or autologous bone to completely restore joint function or perform joint fusion.