Primary Malignant Tumours of Bone Following Previous Malignancy

Primary Malignant Tumours of Bone Following Previous Malignancy

Destructive bone lesions occurring in patients who have previously had a malignancy are generally assumed to be a metastasis from that malignancy. We reviewed 60 patients with a previous history of malignancy, who presented with a solitary bone lesion that was subsequently found to be a new and different primary sarcoma of bone. These second malignancies occurred in three distinct groups of pat...

Primary Bone Tumours

Synovial chondromatosis Table 108.1: WHO classification of bone tumours. Introduction Bone tumours in childhood cause considerable anxiety to both the affected child and the parents. They may present with vague symptoms or a fracture and can easily be confused with osteomyelitis or some tumour-like lesions that may be developmental in origin. Benign lesions account for 50% of all bone lesions; ...

The treatment of primary malignant brain tumours.

Periacetabular limb salvage for malignant bone tumours.

PURPOSE To evaluate treatment outcomes in primary malignant periacetabular bone tumour removal and limb salvage with or without bone-graft reconstruction. METHODS A total of 13 patients were treated for malignant periacetabular bone tumours at Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. The diagnoses were chondrosarcoma (n=8), Ewing's sarcoma (n=2), osteosarcoma (n=1), well-differentiated osteosarco...

pediatric primary malignant bone tumor

primary bone tumors are the sixth most common neoplasm occurring in children and constitute approximately 6% of all childhood malignancies with a peak incidence in 15- to 19-year- old individuals. these lesions are the third most common tumors in adolescents and young adults (exceeded only by leukemia and lymphoma) common complaints are intermittent to constant mild to severe pain, constitution...