solitary bone cyst
MONDO:0019372Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names solitary bone cyst yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A solitary bone cyst is a benign non-epithelial bone cavity that is asymptomatic and that is found most commonly in the second decade of life by chance. The long bones are most often affected, but cases involving the jaw bone have been reported.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019372), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
17 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Unicameral bone cystHPOHP:0012064
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal humeral diaphysis morphologyHPOHP:0003926
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Abnormal proximal femoral metaphysis morphologyHPOHP:0006431
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Abnormality of the medullary cavity of the long bonesHPOHP:0100253
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Bone painHPOHP:0002653
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Pathologic fractureHPOHP:0002756
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Abnormal tibia morphologyHPOHP:0002992
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Prominent calcaneusHPOHP:0012428
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Abnormal ilium morphologyHPOHP:0002867
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Abnormal parietal bone morphologyHPOHP:0002696
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Abnormal pubic bone morphologyHPOHP:0003172
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Abnormal spinal cord morphologyHPOHP:0002143
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
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- Abnormal vertebral body morphologyHPOHP:0003312
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Abnormality of the nervous systemHPOHP:0000707
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Back painHPOHP:0003418
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Lytic defects of the radiusHPOHP:0003979
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
- Muscular edemaHPOHP:0100748
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
6 names
Resolves to: solitary bone cyst
- Also called
- bone cystcyst of bonecyst of the bonesimple bone cystsolitary cystunicameral bone cyst