2. Epidemiology
• Benign bone tumors are 5 times more common than malignant
• Most common bone malignancy is metastasis
• Most common primary bone malignancy is multiple myeloma
• bone sarcomas account for 0.2% of all malignancies
• bimodal distribution
- first peak occurring in the second decade
- second peak occurring in patients >60
• overall 5-year relative survival for 2001–2007 was 66.3%
11. Prognosis in primary bone tumors
• Stage of disease
• Presence of metastasis
• Skip lesions within same bone
• Histological grade
• Tumor size
15. Clinical workup - history
• Age
• Swelling (duration , progression, associated skin changes, associated
pain )
• Pain (Typical night pain relieved with salicylates – 0steoid osteoma)
• Fracture ( trivial trauma , +/-preceeding pain)
• Systemic complaints ( loss of appetite, loss of weight , fever )
• History of preexisting bone lesions
• Previous radiotherapy
• Personal / family history
23. Plain radiography- pattern analysis
• Where is the lesion ?
• How extensive is the lesion? Size, single /multiple, skip lesions
• What is the lesion doing to the bone?
• What is the bone doing to the lesion?
• Is the lesion making matrix?
• Is the cortex eroded?
• Is there a soft tissue mass
24. Q1- Where is the lesion ?
• Vertical axis
- diaphyseal
- metaphyseal
- metadiaphyseal
- epiphyseal
• Horizontal axis
- cortical
- medullary
29. Q2. What is lesion doing to bone ? Lodwick
classification of margin
• Lytic
- Type 1 : geographical (A,B,C)
- Type 2 : moth eaten
- Type 3 : permeative
• Sclerotic
31. Type IA : well defined, sclerotic margin
• Fibrous dysplasia
• SBC
• Non ossifying fibroma
32. Type 1B – well defined , non sclerotic
• GCT
• Enchondroma
• Chondroblastoma
• Chondromyxoid fibroma
• MFH
33. Type IC margin – ill defined
• Chondrosarcoma
• Osteosarcoma
• GCT
• lymphoma
37. Q3 – what does the bone do to the tumor ?
• Periosteal reaction
- less specific than other radiographic sign
- Highly aggressive tumors often result in interrupted or multilaminar
periosteal reactions
- Less-aggressive processes typically produce a unilaminar periosteal reaction
43. Cortical expansion
• most commonly seen with benign tumors that grow slowly enough to
allow the cortex to remain completely or partially intact.
• malignancies are more likely to progress rapidly and destroy rather
than expand the cortex.
• Lesions that produce a larger degree of cortical expansion are more
likely to predispose to pathologic fracture and local bone deformity
61. MRI
-Indicated when lesion is indeterminate or shows s/o aggressiveness
-Even when a specific diagnosis cannot be made, the differential
diagnosis can be narrowed
• To detect lesions not apparent or indeterminate on Xray
• To help in local staging
• Detects skip lesions
• Helps in surgical planning by assessing the degree of intramedullary extension
and invasion of the adjacent physeal plates, joints, muscle compartments and
neurovascular bundles
• used in assessing response to neoadjuvant therapy
64. CT scan
• Complementary role in diagnosis
• local staging of bone tumor – CT chest
• Percutaneous biopsy
70. Biopsy
• Biopsy planning is important as all tissues contaminated by biopsy
track must be removed during definitive surgery
• Should be performed after discussion with MDT
• Culture the biopsy ( and biopsy the culture)
77. Types of biopsy
• Percutaneous biopsy
- fine needle aspiration (FNAC)
- core needle biopsy
• Incisonal /open biopsy
- should be performed only if enough tissue is not obtained in percutaneous biopsy
- For open biopsy close attention must be paid to haemostasis and tissue dissection
must be kept to minimum
- Drain must be placed in line of incision
• Excisional biopsy
- entire lesion is removed
- for benign lesion e.g osteochondroma
100. Indications of limb salvage surgery
• Should be intracompartmental
• good preoperative chemotherapy respnonse
• Skin should be free of tumor
• Wide resection of affected bone with a normal muscle cuff in all
direction
• All previous biopsy sites and all contaminated tissues can be removed
en bloc
• Adequate motor reconstruction can be achieved by regional muscle
transfer