♦ 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.