Table 2.
Analysis of Various management options with recurrence rate.
| Management options | Types | Group A |
Group B |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of patients | Recurrence rate | No of patients | Recurrence rate | ||||
| Conservative | Mindful observation | 1 | – | 2 | – | ||
| Aspiration | – | 8a | 6 | 2 | |||
| Operative management | Primary procedure | Added procedures | |||||
| Complete excision of cyst only | – | – | 42 | 9 + 29a | 48 | 12 | |
| Complete excision | PTFJ excision | – | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Complete excision | RAN | – | 38 | 6 | 17 | – | |
| Complete excision | RAN | PTFJ excision | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Complete excision | RAN | PTFJ fusion | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Complete excision | RAN | PTFJ resection | – | – | 5 | – | |
| Complete excision | PTFJ arthrodesis | – | 57 | – | – | – | |
| Complete excision | PTFJ arthrodesis | Partial fibular excision | 2 | – | – | – | |
| Complete excision | Tendon transfer for foot drop | – | 7 | – | – | – | |
| Complete excision | Curettage and bone grafting of the bone defect | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| Complete excision | TKA | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| Complete excision | Arthroscopic resection | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| TKA | Fibula head resection | – | 9 | – | 2 | – | |
RAN = Recurrent articular branch neurectomy.
a
= no of cases that had been previously managed by respective procedure and came with recurrence to that respective author.