Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report

Hangody, György Márk; Hangody, László Rudolf; Kiss, János; Keszég, Miklós Attila; Szőcs, Gyula Ferenc; Hangody, László

doi:10.3390/life16050752

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Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report

by

György Márk Hangody

^1,*

,

László Rudolf Hangody

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,

János Kiss

²,

Miklós Attila Keszég

¹,

Gyula Ferenc Szőcs

¹ and

László Hangody

¹

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Uzsoki Hospital, 1145 Budapest, Hungary

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Department of Orthopaedics, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Life 2026, 16(5), 752; https://doi.org/10.3390/life16050752

Submission received: 26 March 2026 / Revised: 24 April 2026 / Accepted: 27 April 2026 / Published: 1 May 2026

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Personalized Management in Orthopedics and Traumatology)

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Chondroblastoma is a generally benign tumor occurring at a young age; however, its location near a joint and its tendency to recur make the treatment particularly challenging. This is especially true in the case of its occurrence in the hip joint. Surgical removal—curettage—is the primary method, but the remaining defect can be filled with several methods depending on the size of the tumor. The approach to the lesion is another difficulty. There are several available options, but due to the characteristics of the blood supply to the joint, this is a significant risk. In our case, we used an open autologous osteochondral graft transplantation (mosaicplasty) to treat juvenile hip chondroblastoma in a young female patient, for which the ipsilateral knee joint served as the donor area. The patient was followed up for 3 years after surgery, and, in addition to physical examinations, numerous imaging studies were performed to exclude local recurrence or avascular necrosis in the femoral head and to ensure that the congruence of the implanted osteochondral grafts was maintained.

Keywords: chondroblastoma; osteochondral autograft transplantation; mosaicplasty of the hip

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Hangody, G.M.; Hangody, L.R.; Kiss, J.; Keszég, M.A.; Szőcs, G.F.; Hangody, L. Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report. Life 2026, 16, 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/life16050752

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Hangody GM, Hangody LR, Kiss J, Keszég MA, Szőcs GF, Hangody L. Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report. Life. 2026; 16(5):752. https://doi.org/10.3390/life16050752

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Hangody, György Márk, László Rudolf Hangody, János Kiss, Miklós Attila Keszég, Gyula Ferenc Szőcs, and László Hangody. 2026. "Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report" Life 16, no. 5: 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/life16050752

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Hangody, G. M., Hangody, L. R., Kiss, J., Keszég, M. A., Szőcs, G. F., & Hangody, L. (2026). Surgical Treatment of Juvenile Hip Chondroblastoma Using Mosaicplasty: A Case Report. Life, 16(5), 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/life16050752

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