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♦ Bone and soft tissue tumours are rare and should therefore be assessed and treated in specialized centres
♦ Clinical staging and pathological grading is used to classify the extent of a tumour
♦ Clinical staging uses various imaging techniques, pathological grading requires tumour biopsy following clinical staging
♦ The Enneking system is commonly used for surgical staging of bone and soft tissue tumours
♦ Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for musculoskeletal tumours
♦ The surgical margin describes the extent of the procedure
♦ Intralesional margins describe a procedure that removes the tumour...
♦ Bone and soft tissue tumours are rare and should therefore be assessed and treated in specialized centres
♦ Clinical staging and pathological grading is used to classify the extent of a tumour
♦ Clinical staging uses various imaging techniques, pathological grading requires tumour biopsy following clinical staging
♦ The Enneking system is commonly used for surgical staging of bone and soft tissue tumours
♦ Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for musculoskeletal tumours
♦ The surgical margin describes the extent of the procedure
♦ Intralesional margins describe a procedure that removes the tumour alone, radical margins may require removal of entire bone
♦ Open incisional biopsy is the gold standard method for obtaining a representative specimen of tumour
♦ Careful planning and good collaboration between surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists is crucial to avoid unnecessary or dangerous biopsy procedures.
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Subjects:
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
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Histopathology
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Surgical Oncology
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