Surgical treatment of a symptomatic intra-articular osteoid osteoma (IAOO)

The intra-articular osteoid osteoma (10% of cases) is a rare clinical finding. Based on atypical clinical signs and various radiological results the period to obtain a diagnosis and initiate the appropriate treatment is often very long. This case reports on a 32-year old female patient with knee pain on flexion and stress, which rarely occurred at night. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) was contraindicated for IAOO in the trochlea femoris due to the direct subchondral location. Therefore, surgical rehabilitation by means of a cartilage-bone transplantation was carried out.