Radiotherapy on knee–related pigmented villonodular synovitis

Abstract

Berger implemented external beam radiotherapy in the range of 30 to 50 Gy after open synovectomy in 7 patients. With no recurrence on the patients, it is stated that 1 patient complains about joint stiffness.10 Nassar et al.,11 did not report recurrence in the study involving 12 patients with an average follow-up of 27 months after postoperative radiotherapy.11 Ozturk et al.12 did not report recurrence in the study involving 7 patients with an average follow-up of 47.8 months postoperatively.12