Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review

Benign abnormalities of bone are common, especially in children. Malignant bone sarcomas are aggressive and have a poor outcome, particularly if treatment is delayed or initiated in a non-specialist centre. Conversely, specialist tumour centres are overwhelmed with referrals for benign disease, a pr...

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Autores principales: Plant, James, Cannon, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery 2016
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28461955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2058-5241.1.000035
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description Benign abnormalities of bone are common, especially in children. Malignant bone sarcomas are aggressive and have a poor outcome, particularly if treatment is delayed or initiated in a non-specialist centre. Conversely, specialist tumour centres are overwhelmed with referrals for benign disease, a predictable outcome of an increasingly litigious medical environment. This review aims to arm the general orthopaedic surgeon or general practitioner with information to better discern a benign bone lesion from a malignant one, and explain the process of investigation and onward referral for those in whom malignant disease is suspected. Cite this article: Plant J, Cannon S. Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review. EFORT Open Rev 2016;1:247-253. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.1.000035.
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spelling pubmed-53675722017-05-01 Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review Plant, James Cannon, Stephen EFORT Open Rev Oncology Benign abnormalities of bone are common, especially in children. Malignant bone sarcomas are aggressive and have a poor outcome, particularly if treatment is delayed or initiated in a non-specialist centre. Conversely, specialist tumour centres are overwhelmed with referrals for benign disease, a predictable outcome of an increasingly litigious medical environment. This review aims to arm the general orthopaedic surgeon or general practitioner with information to better discern a benign bone lesion from a malignant one, and explain the process of investigation and onward referral for those in whom malignant disease is suspected. Cite this article: Plant J, Cannon S. Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review. EFORT Open Rev 2016;1:247-253. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.1.000035. British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery 2016-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5367572/ /pubmed/28461955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2058-5241.1.000035 Text en © 2016 The author(s) http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed.
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title Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review
title_full Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review
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title_short Diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review
title_sort diagnostic work up and recognition of primary bone tumours: a review
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