8. Symptoms
Localised Swelling Generalised body aches
GCT Multiple Myeloma
Osteosarcoma - Symtoms ignored for
quite sometime
Chondrosarcoma
- Can be mistaken for
Ewing’s sarcoma many other
conditions with
generalised body
aches
Osteoporosis/Osteomal
acia, FMS etc.
9. Swelling
May not be obvious
Especially if the tumour is deep
REST PAIN
10. Wasting of Muscles
Disproportionate to
Duration of disease
Tuberculosis
Malignancy
Rheumatoid
Disease
11. Radiology
Utility of
Plain Radiograph Dimension – View in–Third of
CT
MRI Extent
In Diagnosis Lesion
Intra/Extra
Compartmental
STAGING
Isotope Scan – Lesions
elewhere
12. IMAGING
PLAIN Enneking`s four questions
RADIOGRAPHY
1. Where is the lesion?
2. What is the lesion doing to
bone?
Transition zone
3. How is the tissue responding to
lesion?
Reactive zone
4. Does anything suggest
histology?
Calcification, Ossification,
Ground glass
appearance Etc.
13. ALTRMCPS
Age of Skeleton –
- Mature or Immature
Location
Transitional zone
Reactive zone
Matrix
Cortex
Periosteal reaction
Soft tissue swelling
14. Location ALTRMCPS
Which Bone?
Which Part of the Bone?
- Epiphysis
- Metaphysis
- Diaphysis
Eccentric or Concentric?
15. Zones of Transition A LT R M C P S
Narrow
- Sharp Sclerotic
BENIGN
- Sharp Lytic
Wide
- Ill-defined or hazy
AGGRESSIVE /
- Moth eaten MALIGNANT
- permeative
16. Zone of Transition ALTRMCPS
Narrow Non-ossifying Fibroma
Sharp Sclerotic
30. OS – Early diagnosis
Suspect OS :
* Minor injury – disproportionate duration of
pain or
increasing pain
* Pain associated with sclerosis or erosions
in the metaphysis without
fever
41. Diagnosis of Bone Tumours
HISTOLOGY
Problem - Heterogenous nature of
s Osteosarcoma
- Round cell Tumours
- Giant cell variants
- Reactive conditions mistaken for
tumours
- Benign vs Malignant
- Path. Fr. Mistaken for Tumour
- Primary or Mets
- Tumour vs Infection
42. Problems
Histology - 1
Osteosarco
ma
Heterogeneity
Osteoblastic
Chondroblastic
Fibroblastic
GC rich
Telangiectatic
Small cell OS
Fibrous
Histiocytoma-
like
43. Problem – Histology 2
Ewing’s sarcoma Round Cell Tumours of Bone
Ewing’s sarcoma
Primary Lymphoma of
bone
Metastatic
Neuroblastoma
Embryonal
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Small cell
Osteosarcoma
Mesenchymal cell
Chondrosarcoma
Metastatic small cell
45. Problem – Histology 4
Reactive
Conditions
mistaken
for Tumour
- Exuberant
callu
s -
Organising
hematoma
- Myositis
ossificans
46. Problem – Histology 4
Reactive CALLUS
Conditions
mistaken
for Tumour
-
Exuberant
callu
s -
Organising
hematoma OS
- Myositis
47. Problem – Histology 4
Reactive
Conditions
mistaken
for
Tumours
- Exuberant
callus
- Organising
hematoma
- Myositis
ossificans
48. Problem – Histology 5
Benign vs
Malignant Secondary Chondrosarcoma arising
from osteochondromatosis -
Histology may be misleading –
appears benign
Aggressive Chondromyxoid Fibroma
can be mistaken for low grade
Chondrosarcoma
Aggressive Osteoblastoma
borderlines on Osteosarcoma
Clinical picture & Radiology help to
a great extent to differentiate
49. Problem – Histology 6
Pathological
fr. Mistaken
for
Tumour
Needle
Biopsy -
Chondrosarco -
Open Biopsy
maTuberculosis
50. Problem – Histology 7
Primary vs Met. Neuroblastoma or
Metastases
carcinoma vs Ewing’s –
immunohistochemistry
51. Problem – Histology 8
Tumour vs
Infection
Radiology –
Ewing’s Sarcoma
Histology –
Plasmacytes -
Plasmacytoma
with path #
Clinical –
Osteomyelitis
Plasmacytic Osteomyelitis
52. Problem – Histology 8
Tumour vs
Infection
OSTEOMYELITI
S
Low Grade
INTRA
MEDULLARY
OSTEOSARCOM
A
53. Problem – Histology 8
Tumour vs
Infection
* Ewing’s Sarcoma &
Osteomyelitis are
confused with each other
Clinically, Radiologically and even
Histologically
* “Culture a tumour &
Biopsy an
Infection”
54. “The gross anatomy as
revealed in radiographs is
often a safer guide to correct
clinical conception than
variable and uncertain
nature of a small piece of 1922
EWING
tissue”
Importance of Correlation of
Histology & Radiology
55. Diagnosis of Bone Tumours
Final Diagnosis
CLINICAL
IMAGEOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
(Radiology)
56. Prof. Dr. Walter Putscher
Orthopedic Pathologist, Boston, USA
“No Pathologist shall ever sign out a
report without seeing the Radiograph
57. Prof. Peter G Bullough
Professor of Orthopedic Pathology
Hospital for Special Surgery,
Cornell University,
NEW YORK
“If I were you, I will run
to the Radiology
department
and get the x-ray films
and make them
available before the
Histology slides are
studied”
58. DICTUM
The Pathologist should receive the Clinical &
Radiological findings while dealing with the
diagnosis of Bone Tumours
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