Tumour surgeries of the bone
what is bone tumour
bone tumour is a condition in which there is an abnormal proliferation of cells of the bone leading to increase in the bone size and destruction of the bone there are two types of tumours benign and malignant
example of benign swellings
Bone-forming tumors
- Osteoid osteoma
- Bone island
Cartilage lesions
- Chondroma
- Osteochondroma
Fibrous lesions
- Nonossifying fibroma
- Cortical desmoid
- Benign fibrous histiocytoma
- Fibrous dysplasia
- Osteofibrous dysplasia
- Desmoplastic fibroma
Bone island
- Unicameral bone cyst
- Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Intraosseous ganglion cyst
- Giant cell tumor
Malignant swellings of bone
- Osteosarcoma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
- Chordoma
- Adamantinoma
- Malignant vascular tumors
- Malignant fibrous histiocytoma and fibrosarcoma
- Multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma
- Lymphoma
- Metastatic carcinoma
Investigations available for diagnosis
bone tumors can be diagnosed by means of X-Ray, sometimes CT scan or MRI with or without contrast is useful to detect bone tumors
PET scan or Bone scan can also plays an important role in identifying multiple lesions in the whole body and to identify the spread of the tumor to other parts of the body
