Bone tumours around the elbow: a rare entity

Bone tumours around the elbow are rare. Even nowadays diagnostic dilemmas and delays are common. During recent decades the management and prognosis of patients with elbow bone tumours has improved significantly. Benign tumours can be treated using minimally invasive procedures, whereas malignant one...

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Autores principales: Savvidou, Olga D., Koutsouradis, Panagiotis, Chloros, George D., Papanastasiou, Ioannis, Sarlikiotis, Thomas, Kaspiris, Aggelos, Papagelopoulos, Panayiotis J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery 2019
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6491951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2058-5241.4.180086
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Sumario:Bone tumours around the elbow are rare. Even nowadays diagnostic dilemmas and delays are common. During recent decades the management and prognosis of patients with elbow bone tumours has improved significantly. Benign tumours can be treated using minimally invasive procedures, whereas malignant ones require a multidisciplinary team approach based on an adjuvant therapeutic regimen of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and limb salvage procedures. This article reviews the most commonly encountered elbow bone tumours and their management. Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2019;4:133-142. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.4.180086

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