Part III: Malignant Bone Tumors: Primary and Metastatic

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy in primary malignant and metastatic bone tumors.

56 malignant bone neoplasms (15 primary and 41 metastatic), diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy, are reported. 100% diagnostic accuracy was achieved. The results indicate that fine-needle aspiration biopsy can be a substitute for open surgical biopsy in selected cases.

Part III Genetics and Epidemiology of Primary Tumors

Clinicopathological Correlation of Primary Malignant Bone Tumors—An Observational Study

Background: Primary malignant tumors arising from bone are uncommon but important malignant neoplasms which account for 0.2% of all primary cancers in adults and approximately 5% of all childhood malignancies. Aim: No comprehensive surveillance data about primary malignant bone tumors is available from this region of West Bengal in the literature. An attempt is undertaken to correlate clinicopa...

Malignant primary meningeal tumors.

1) Out of 160 primary meningeal tumors surgically treated, 10 cases had histologically malignant tumors. Of them two cases of sarcoma and one case of meningioma with marked invasiveness were filed in malignant (sarcoma) group, and six cases of angioblastic meningioma of hemangiopericytoma type and one case of meningioma with partial invasiveness in semi malignant group. 2) Average duration of s...

Local experience in the surgical treatment of primary malignant and metastatic bone tumors of the proximal femur.

Background. The introduction of new techniques for fixation of long bones and postresectional prosthetic replacement, combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have created new possibilities for the surgical treatment of primary and metastatic bone tumors. The main problem is still the time of diagnosis and the proper choice of operative treatment. Material and methods. We examined a group 6...