Bone Cyst

Been doing 3 weeks of Orthopaedics already and i love it! It's been quite eventful really, because the 2nd week i was in the department Jan got admitted for his core biopsy. Funny story how we found out about his ?tumor - he had amuscle sprain around the left side of his waist from his extensive gym sessions and football matches and it had been nagging him for a few days already so i got him to come to the hospital and get it checked out by the ortho clinic. Since Faizi had already done ortho (I was doing paediatrics at the time) and knew the medical officers personally, we didn't have to wait much. Went straight from registration to the examination by Dr Mimi and then the X-ray to rule out any possible fractures. Pretty standard procedures..

Absolutely normal on the left side where it was hurting but HELLO! WHAT IS THAT BIG ROUND THIS SITTING ON HIS RIGHT ACETABULUM?! Dr Mimi immediately referred him to Miss Chye, our resident orthopedics tumor team specialist to investigate further and one week later he got an MRI done and last week he got admitted for a core biopsy to get a sample of the ?tumor to find out what it really was.

He was in abit of pain post op despite it only being under spinal (i was worried it would be under general anaesthesia; didn't want to have to go through the risks of GA pulak) and he was only able to walk around albeit wonkily the next day, so going to the toilet and dressing/undressing got easier. I got to read the op notes, and they used an image intensifier for the procedure - sort of a modified x-ray + magnifier combination to firstly locate the tumor so they know where to poke and secondly to know how deep to go. From the images, she concluded that there was no tumor (PHEUWH!) and that it was probably just a simple bone cyst but they would need histopathological confirmation to be sure.

Our next appointment with Miss Chye is this Monday to review the biopsy results and to remove his stitches so we're keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for the best.

Insyallah all will be okay :)