5 year old who fell off a slide.
Initial imaging shows a comminuted fracture through the distal humerus, compatible with a supracondylar fracture. Nothing else appreciable here, except maybe in retrospect some lucency of the distal humerus where the fracture is.
4- and 7-month follow-up radiographs shows a growing lucent lesion of the distal humerus, expanding the bone there. It has a multicystic appearance. A diagnosis of large simple bone cyst versus aneurysmal bone cyst was proposed.
12 month follow-up was done after the cyst was opened surgically, its contents scraped off, and the resulting cavity was packed with allograft bone chips. At surgery, this turned out to be an aneurysmal bone cyst.
5 year follow-up shows involution of the cyst cavity with some residual heterogeneity and a bone spur at the anterior aspect of the distal humerus.
Bone break! Why so weak? -> Oh, tumor surprise! -> Tumor growing, bad! Make bone weak(er)! -> Fix fix fix. Luckily not a cancer. -> Good.
The explanation went beyond ELI5 and straight to Tarzan Speak.
Me not lie. Me like small words from smart man.
Why say many word when few word do trick?
ELITarzan should be a thing.
Have you seen how some 5 y.o. speaks?
Me like he go full Kevin!
Best tl;dr I’ve seen :)
You are a wonderful human being. I really appreciate you.