Presentation
6 year old girl post fall. She injured her left humerus 2 days ago, and has ongoing shoulder/proximal humerus pain since. Restricted motion of the shoulder joint. No neurovascular deficit.
Patient Data
Slightly expansile, lucent lesion in the proximal humeral diaphysis with lateral cortical break in keeping with an acute pathological fracture. A fallen bone fragment is seen within the lesion.
Annotated fallen fragment sign (arrow).
Case Discussion
The fallen fragment sign is virtually pathognomonic for a unicameral simple bone cyst, however, there are a few case reports in the literature that report this sign in other cystic bone lesions e.g. eosinophilic granuloma 1.