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Osteoid Osteoma: Elevation of Cardiac and Respiratory Rates at Biopsy Needle Entry into Tumor in 10 Patients¹

¹ From the Departments of Radiology (D.I.R.), Anesthesia (J.J.A.M.), and Orthopedic Surgery (F.J.H.), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 199 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114. Received November 29, 2001; revision requested February 18, 2002; revision received March 21; accepted May 7. Address correspondence to D.I.R. (e-mail: dirosenthal@partners.org).

PURPOSE: To evaluate changes in cardiac and respiratory rates in a consecutive series of patients who underwent percutaneous treatment for lesions presumed to be osteoid osteoma in whom general anesthesia was established.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Changes in cardiac and respiratory rates were evaluated after establishment of stable general anesthesia in 14 patients who underwent needle biopsy and radio-frequency treatment. Cardiac and respiratory rates were recorded at penetration of skin, muscle, periosteum, cortex, and tumor. Treatment was performed before the biopsy report was available.

RESULTS: Biopsy results revealed osteoid osteoma in 10 patients, chondroblastoma in one, and a herniation pit in one. Results in the two remaining patients were nondiagnostic and were excluded. Puncture of skin, muscle, and periosteum caused no detectable change. However, in the 10 patients with biopsy-proved osteoid osteoma, puncture of the tumor caused the mean cardiac rate to increase an average of 26 beats per minute (40%) to 91 (range, 62–114; P < .001) and the mean respiratory rate to increase an average of 12 breaths per minute (50%) to a mean of 37 (range, 25–52; P < .001). These changes occurred within seconds of tumor puncture and were often the first indication to the surgeon that the tumor had been entered. In the two patients with other diagnoses at biopsy, no such change was apparent.

CONCLUSION: Mean cardiac and respiratory rates increase significantly at needle puncture of osteoid osteoma.

© RSNA, 2002

Index terms: Bones, biopsy, 40.1261, 40.3122 • Osteoma, 40.3122

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