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        <journal-title>Journal of Medical Insight</journal-title>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">268.15</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24296/jomi/268.15</article-id>
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          <subject>Research article</subject>
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        <article-title>Pediatric Surgical Treatment of a Wrist Ganglion Cyst in a Resource-Limited Setting</article-title>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>2024</volume>
      <issue>07</issue>
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        <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
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        <p>Ganglion cysts are benign, mucinous-filled swellings that overly tendons and joints. They are the most common soft tissue mass found in the hand and wrist but also commonly encountered in the knee and foot. Presenting as a palpable knot, the cyst is asymptomatic until it impinges on local neurovasculature causing pain, numbness, tingling, and/or motor deficits. Pediatric ganglion cysts have different epidemiological characteristics than adults, with the majority found on the volar aspect on the wrist. Treatment of ganglion cysts is most often observation due to the 50% chance of resolution over time. Activity causes the cyst to increase in size, and thus more aggressive treatment is often desirable. If the cyst recurs or symptoms are not relieved with observation alone, a more aggressive treatment such as surgical excision is often desirable. Here, we present a female pediatric patient undergoing surgical excision of a large ganglion cyst on the dorsum of her right wrist. With the treatment options explained to her, she chose excision for the lower rate of recurrence.</p>
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        <kwd>Resource-Limited Settings</kwd>
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        <kwd>Marsupialization</kwd>
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