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Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors

AUTHOR:
Joseph Mort
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
  1. Appreciate the rarity of primary bone and soft tissue tumors
  2. Classify primary bone tumors as benign or malignant.
  3. Know classic presentations of osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Ewing’s sarcoma including epidemiology, location, presence or absence of systemic symptoms, and characteristic imaging and pathology findings.
  4. Recognize the most common types of cancer that metastasize to bone.
  5. Appreciate pain and hypercalcemia as features of metastatic bone disease and identify medications that can be used to address these symptoms.
  6. Recognize the most common plasma cell disorders.
  7. Explain how multiple myeloma results in the classic symptoms of hypercalcemia, renal failure, anemia, and bone pain or fracture.
Section
AccessMedicine > Huppert’s Notes: Pathophysiology and Clinical Pearls for Internal Medicine > SARCOMA > Osteosarcoma
Chapter
AccessMedicine > Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2024 > Tumors & Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone
Case File
AccessMedicine > Pathophysiology of Disease Cases > Case 91 > Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
Case File
AccessMedicine > Pathophysiology of Disease Cases > Case 22 > Osteosarcomas
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > Hematology/Oncology > Multiple Myeloma
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > Musculoskeletal System > Osteosarcoma

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