What are the symptoms of musculoskeletal cancers in adolescents? The most common symptom is pain. Often the pain is associated with an incidental episode of trauma. However, trauma is neither related to nor causative of the lesion. Unlike pain due to trauma (eg, fracture, muscle pull), pain due to musculoskeletal tumors does not decrease with time; rather, it increases with time. Night pain and...

background: tumors involving the hand skeleton are rare. however, a basic knowledge of hand tumors is necessary for every clinician. this is due to the importance of distinguishing typical benign tumors from life or limb threatening malignant ones. methods: this study is a review of 99 cases of osseous hand tumors presented to the department of orthopedic surgery, imam khomeini hospital in tehr...

Abstract The pediatric musculoskeletal system differs from the adult in many ways, including anatomical, physiological, and psychological differences. These differences will result clinical radiological presentation. In this chapter specific knowledge essential for radiologists who deal with diseases children be discussed a focus on: (a) hip pathologies, (b) infectious inflammatory diseases, (c...

BACKGROUND MRI is the diagnostic mainstay for detection and differentiation of musculoskeletal tumors. However, a projection regarding the biological dignity of lesions based on standard MRI sequences remains difficult and uncertain. This study was undertaken to analyse whether diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) can distinguish between benign and malignant musculoskeletal tumorous and tumor-like lesi...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of transcatheter arterial embolization prior to surgical excision of musculoskeletal tumors. We reviewed the records of nine patients (3 females and 6 males) who received arterial embolization prior to excision of musculoskeletal tumors in our hospital from December 2009 to April 2010. We evaluated tumor region, size, histopathology, fe...