Primary malignant sarcomas of the spine are extremely rare. Because of biological heterogeneity, these tumors have variable sensitivity to radiation and chemotherapy. Adequate local control through complete tumor removal is an important therapeutic goal. However, aggressive resection of tumors in the spinal column must be coupled with restoration of spinal column stability and minimization of n...

Reprint requests to: Dr. Feng-Chi Chang Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ewing’s sarcoma of the skul l is a rare and aggressive primary bone tumor occurs in youngaged pat ients. The current main therapeut ic strategy is surgical tumor removal followed by adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. We, hereby, present a pedia...

Osteogenic sarcoma of the skull is rare [1-7], particularly as a primary development in the later decades of life without associated Paget disease or history of irradiation. Because of the paucity of cases, the radiologic findings of calvarial osteogenic sarcoma have not been described in detail. Previous reports have dealt mainly with plain skull radiographs for the diagnosis of this tumor bef...

into the J. J. Hospital on the 4th May 1898 with a swelling of the left temporal region. His father had died of fever seven years back; his mother, six brothers and two sisters were all alive, in good health, and no history of any malignaut disease in any member of the family could be made out. About fifteen years back the patient suffered severely from fever, but had otherwise always enjoyed p...

-Details of sex, age at presentation and anatomical site of sarcoma complicating Paget's disease of bone were recorded from the literature for white patients in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States over the period 1918-77. Evidence is presented to suggest that sex and tumour-site distributions are free from bias, except possibly for the skull. There was a male predominance for al...