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Bone tumours and soft tissue sarcomas
Thankamma Ajithkumar, Ann Barrett, Helen Hatcher, Natalie Cook
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Abstract
Primary malignant tumours of bone are rare and comprise a large number of histological subtypes. • The most common are osteosarcoma, Ewing's family of tumours, and chondrosarcoma. Each of these has further subgroups which will be discussed in detail under their subheadings. • The remaining subgroups are exceptionally rare and include the presentation of spindle cell sarcoma of bone e.g. malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH), within the bone as a primary lesion. MFH of bone is treated as other primary bone tumours (Bramwell et al. 1999)....