Giant Cell Tumor Excision of Finger
The transcript below is YouTube's automatic one. Anatomy terms are the words the machine heard, so a few of them are wrong. The practice is proofreading them.
- Video ID:
RkckLtNCdgQ - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkckLtNCdgQ
- Uploaded: 2016-06-01
- Duration: 203s
- Views at capture: 42269
- Captions: YouTube auto-generated (no manual track published)
Description (channel copy)
Watch Dr. Knight remove a benign giant cell tumor from a finger. He carefully lifts the tumor from the extensor tendon. He then removes the tumor from the DIP joint.
Transcript
giant cell tumor excision this patient had a lengthy history of a mass of her the dorsal aspect of the VIP joint MRI was consistent with a possible epidermal inclusion cyst or a giant cell tumor you can see here I'm in sizing the skin over the mass sharply
now I'm reflecting the flaps a small skin hook is placed and now using scissors I'm carefully dissect around the margins of the tumor consistency visually is that of a giant cell tumor
see I'm lifting this off of the extensor tendon
this shelled out nicely it had one extension going down into the distal interplan jewel joint see the last bit of tumor that's going out down into the joint
now exposing the di p joint moving the joint looking at the articulation when no further tumor the pathology was that consistent with a giant cell tumor you can see that cutting open the solid mass here
