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Table 1 Standard treatments with curettage for GCTBa in 24 institutions

From: Clinical outcome of primary giant cell tumor of bone after curettage with or without perioperative denosumab in Japan: from a questionnaire for JCOG 1610 study

Treatments

No. of institutions (%)

Local adjuvants

 High-speed burr

22 (92%)

 Ethanol

8 (33%)

 Liquid nitrogen

6 (25%)

 Phenol

3 (13%)

Reconstruction after curettage

 Autologous bone graft

18 (75%)

 PMMAb

17 (71%)

 β-TCPc

11 (46%)

 Hydroxyapatite

10 (42%)

 Allogeneic bone graft

2 (8%)

  1. aGCTB giant cell tumor of bone
  2. bPMMA, polymethyl methacrylate
  3. cβ-TCP, β tricalcium phosphate; some of the replies by responded institutions are overlapped