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| | ENLmedical.com: Conditions And Concerns: Medical Encyclopedia: Bone tumors |
 | | Malignant bone tumors occur as a primary bone tumor, or as metastasis, cancer spread from another area of the body. | | | The incidence of bone cancer is also increased in families with a history of familial retinoblastoma. | | | Bone cancer was prevalent among individuals who painted radium on watch faces (to produce glow-in-the-dark dials), a practice that was abandoned at mid-century. |
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http://www.enlmedical.com/article/001230.htm
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| | Benign Bone Tumors |
| | Some types of tumors are most common in specific locations such as the spine or near the growth plates of the largest bones. | | | Some conditions such as aneurysmal bone cyst, unicameral bone cyst, and fibrous dysplasia are sometimes grouped with benign bone tumors. | | | Some “benign” tumors occasionally are locally aggressive tumors that can progressively destroy bone. An example would be giant cell tumor of bone. This particular tumor would need early local management before the end of a bone is destroyed. |
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http://cms.clevelandclinic.org/ortho/body.cfm?id=67
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| | Spinal Cord Tumor, Dr. Jho's Anterolateral or Posterolateral Approach for Endoscopic Spinal Cord Tumor Surgery |
| | Spinal bone tumors can be divided into cancerous tumors and benign tumors. | | | Spinal cord tumors include spinal bone tumors, tumors located in the spinal canal but outside the spinal cord itself ( extramedullary tumors), and tumors of the spinal cord itself ( intramedullary). | | | Primary cancerous spinal bone tumors are relatively uncommon and include chordomas, osteosarcomas, chondrosarcomas, Ewing's sarcomas, multiple myelomas, lymphomas etc. Treatments for these malignant tumors must involve multimodality measures including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. |
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http://drjho.com/spinal_cord_tumor_surgery.htm
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| | University Orthopaedics -- Common Bone and Joint Problems |
| | A: Orthopaedic oncology involves the surgical treatment of tumors affecting bones, muscles and connective tissue. | | | If a tumor is suspected, it can usually be detected through various imaging techniques, including x-ray, MRI and bone scan procedure. | | | Sometimes a tumor is detected as the result of a bone fracture which is not due to a traumatic accident (such fractures are called pathological fractures). |
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http://www.uortho.com/oncology.html
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| | eMedicine - Glomus Tumors : Article by Ryszard M Pluta, MD, PhD |
| | Although rare, glomus tumors are the most common tumor of the middle ear and are second to vestibular schwannoma as the most common tumor of the temporal bone. | | | Surgical therapy: Surgery is the treatment of choice for glomus jugulare tumors. | | | Surgery is the treatment of choice for glomus tumors, and its effectiveness will improve with widespread use of intraoperative guiding and imaging systems. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2994.htm
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| | Bone cancer Pain Pain |
| | We have targeted bone cancer pain as two-third of the patients with bone metastasis experience severe pain and this pain is often refractory to currently available therapies. | | | Following development of the model we have examined the sensory innervation of the bone with and without cancer, defined animal behavior indicative of cancer pain, and delineated neurochemical changes in the spinal cord and primary afferent neurons that may in part involved in the ongoing and acute pain associated with metastatic bone cancer. | | | Pain is the first symptom of cancer in 20-50% of all cancer patients and 75 90% of advanced or terminal cancer patients must cope with chronic pain syndromes related to failed treatment and/or tumor progression. |
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http://neurosystems.umn.edu/cancer.htm
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| | Bone Marrow Transplantation |
| | Bone marrow transplantation is not yet a standard treatment therapy, but has been used successfully to treat diseases such as leukemias, lymphomas, aplastic anemia, immune deficiency disorders, and some solid tumor cancers since 1968. | | | Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a special therapy for patients with cancer or other diseases which affect the bone marrow. | | | This therapy is often called ablative, or myeloablative, because of the effect on the bone marrow. |
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http://www.montefiore.org/healthlibrary/adult/blood/bonemarr
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| | Sloan-Kettering - Bone Cancer |
| | The most common symptom of bone cancer is pain, which is caused either by the spread of the tumor or by the breaking of bone that is weakened by a tumor. | | | Bone cancer can occur in any of the bones of the body, but it occurs most often in the long bones of the arms and legs. | | | Although most people with bone cancer do not have any obvious risk factors, excessive exposure to radiation (such as that from radiation therapy for another cancer) and heredity have been implicated in some patients with osteosarcoma. |
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http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/1365.cfm
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| | Ear, Nose & Throat Journal: Giant-cell reparative granuloma of the temporal bone: a case report and review of the literature - Original Article |
| | In view of the size of the tumor and the involvement of bone, muscle, connective tissue, the mandibular joint, the dura mater, and the brain, postoperative radiation was recommended by the Department of Radiation Therapy, but the patient declined. | | | In this article, we report a new case of temporal bone GCRG, in which a large tumor infiltrated the sphenoid bone, infratemporal fossa, pterygoid fossa, temporomandibular joint, middle cranial fossa, and temporal lobe. | | | To our knowledge, infiltration of the temporal lobe by a temporal bone GCRG has not been previously described in the literature. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUM/is_12_82/ai_111848425
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| | The Otology Group - Skull Base Tumors |
| | The use of CT in large-lesion assessment is in the determination of the degree of bony destruction as it relates to the vital anatomy of the temporal bone. | | | The glomus tumor has been the focal point, owing to its precarious location, around which the field of neurotologic skull base surgery has evolved. | | | Tumor growth into the ear presents a conductive loss, the sensorineural component being determined by the degree of labyrinthine involvement. |
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http://www.theotologygroup.com/skullbased/s1.html
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| | Zometa International - Dealing with Severe Bone Pain |
| | Bone pain can be treated directly by targeting the metastasis alone or by treating the tumor and all its metastases. | | | Bone pain should be treated with appropriate analgesics (pain medication) (5). | | | Bone pain is often not just felt in the area of the bone metastasis (1). |
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http://www.zometa.com/hcp/patient/bone_pain/bone_pain.jsp
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| | Bone Scintigraphy in Kienbock's Disease |
| | Originally described by Jaffe in 1935 as a benign osteoblastic tumor with a central core of highly vascular osteoid tissue (nidus) within a peripheral zone of sclerotic bone. | | | When the carpal bones are involved, the osteoid osteoma usually arises in the medullary spongiosa and the extensive reactive sclerosis is generally absent. | | | Otherwise healthy 20 year-old female presented to her clinician with a few months history of intermittent wrist pain, exacerbated by full extension and possibly mitigated with Tylenol and Aspirin, now referred for bone scintigraphy. |
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http://www.med.harvard.edu/JPNM/BoneTF/Case1/WriteUp1.html
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| | Pain Relief Options When Cancer Has Moved to the Bone |
| | Metastatic bone disease: a secondary disorder that happens when cancer cells from another area in the body travel to the skeletal system and form tumors in bone tissue. | | | Metastatic bone disease happens when cancer cells from the original tumor area travel (or metastasize) through the body and move into the bone. | | | METASTRON is indicated for the relief of bone pain in patients with confirmed metastases in the bone. |
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http://www.amershamhealth-us.com/patient/radguide/bonepain.html
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| | Dr. Koop - Bone Cancer- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | Even if a bone or soft tissue sarcoma is appears to be localized and could apparently be completely removed, there is still significant risk that tumor cells too small to detect have already spread to other places in the body. | | | However, there are individuals in whom the primary cancer is not yet recognized at the time when the early metastatic lesion in bone becomes painful. | | | Biphosphonates are drugs that can be used to reduce bone pain and slow down bone damage in people who have cancer that has spread to their bones. |
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http://www.drkoop.com/encyclopedia/93/76.html
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| | Cancer |
| | The most common primary bone cancer is known as multiple myeloma where the cancerous tumor resides in the bone marrow, damaging the bone marrow's function to produce blood cells. | | | Primary bone cancer is less common than bone metastasis (the spread of cancer to another part of the body). | | | Brain cancer is also called malignant brain tumor where a tumor is a mass of abnormal cells growing in the brain. |
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http://www.tipsofallsorts.com/cancer.html
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| | Bone Marrow Transplants Come Of Age |
| | "With autologous transplants (in which a patient uses his or her own stem cells), there may be tumor cells circulating in the bone marrow or blood that we don't want to give back," explains Stephen Litwin, M.D., a medical officer in FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. | | | The sternum, the bone in the middle of the chest, is another possible site. | | | Mary Halet, of Minneapolis, Minn., says that being a bone marrow donor was one of the most important events in her life. |
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http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/400_bone.html
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| | bone_pain |
| | Bone pain is especially common in cancers ofthe breast, prostate, and lung when tumors metastasize to bone. | | | Bone pain is caused by the tumor pressing on orinvading the bone. | | | The back or the chest may hurt when theribs or the bones of the spine are involved, and headaches can occurwhen the skull is affected. |
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http://www.echt.chm.msu.edu/blockiii/pain/Block%20III%20core%20competency/bone_pain.htm
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| | Bone cancer pain in animal model |
| | The scientists observed that when cancer is present in bone, secretions from the tumor cells cause the osteoclasts to shift into high gear, so bone is destroyed more rapidly than it can be replenished. | | | Coinciding with the changes in the bone the team identified a significant neurochemical change in the area of the spinal cord associated with the communication of pain signals to the brain. | | | Most significantly, said Mantyh, the chemical changes in the spinal cord that are thought to amplify pain signals from the cancerous bone were also blocked, as were the pain-related behaviors. |
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http://www.cancer.umn.edu/page/news/bonepain.html
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| | Bone Disorders - Giant Cell Tumor |
| | The location of a giant cell tumor is often in the knee, but can also involve the bones of the arms and the legs, or the flat bones such as the sternum (breastbone) or pelvis. | | | bone grafting - a surgical procedure in which healthy bone is transplanted from another part of the patient's body into the affected area. | | | Paget's disease of the bone is a chronic bone disorder in which bones become enlarged and deformed. |
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| | IV. Metabolic Bone Disease |
| | bone resorption and fibrous replacement resulting in diffuse osteopenia (which may be difficult to distinguish radiologically from common osteoporosis); in some cases, "cystic" or tumor-like lesions of bone ("brown tumors"); pathological fractures; and, rarely seen today, widespread alterations and deformities affecting the demineralized and softened bones of the entire skeleton (generalized osteitis fibrosa cystica). | | | The complex bone changes in chronic renal failure are called renal osteodystrophy and include osteomalacia, rickets ("renal rickets"), osteitis fibrosa and other bone changes of hyperparathyroidism. | | | In these conditions, in contrast to osteomalacia and rickets, there is a high rate of bone turnover and no failure or delay of bone mineralization. |
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| | EAR SURGERY INFORMATION CENTER-Glomus Tumors |
| | However, the larger, so-called glomus jugulare tumors, arising from the jugular vein, may be extremely vascular and are situated deep in the bone of the ear and neck. | | | Most glomus tumors are readily noted by a primary care physician¹s routine examination of the ear. | | | Using this team approach, the removal of glomus tumors has become a more successful procedure in terms of sparing vital cranial nerves. |
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| | Glomus Jugulare Tumor |
| | SURGERY The treatment of glomus jugulare tumors is controversial, with advocates for radiation, surgery, and the combination. | | | Most conditions, however, require radical surgical approaches with significant morbidity in view of the tumour location in the temporal bone and proximity to the jugular vein and carotid artery. | | | Surgery on glomus tumors is most often performed by a neurosurgeon and a head and neck surgeon together after preoperative embolization. |
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| | CancerSource.com NCI Physician PDQ |
| | The disease is staged by estimating the myeloma tumor cell mass on the basis of the amount of monoclonal (or myeloma) protein (M-protein) in the serum and/or urine, along with various clinical parameters, such as the hemoglobin and serum calcium concentrations, the number of lytic bone lesions, and the presence or absence of renal failure. | | | A randomized, double-blind study of patients with stage III myeloma showed that monthly intravenous pamidronate significantly reduces pathologic fractures, bone pain, spinal cord compression, and the need for bone irradiation (there were 38% skeletal-related events in the treated group versus 51% in the placebo group after 21 months of therapy, p=.015). | | | The survival of patients with isolated plasmacytoma of bone treated with radiation of the lesion is over 50% at 10 years, which is much better than the survival with disseminated multiple myeloma. |
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http://www.cancersource.com/pdqindex/detail.cfm?DiseaseID=20&ContentID=18764
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| | Limb sparing surgery for bone cancer |
| | The bone tumor is affecting the radius bone | | | Tissue samples of the affected bone may be obtained for histopathology | | | Limb-spare surgery can be done for dogs that have cancer of the radius bone |
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| | Problems in Bone Marrow Pathology - Textbooks |
| | Bone marrow metastasis in Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor: Pediatr Dev Pathol 1998. | | | Application of the immunoperoxidase technique to bone marrow trephine biopsies in the classification of patients with monoclonal gammopathies. | | | Bone marrow assessment in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: aspirate or biopsy? |
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| | Bone Cancer Care for a Dog or Cat. |
| | This is a very aggressive tumor causing lysis (disintegration of bone) or bone production or both. | | | Bone Cancer Care for a Dog or Cat. | | | Cats and Dogs differ in the way bone cancer matures and how treatment should be administered. |
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http://www.talktothevet.com/ARTICLES/DOGS/dog_bone_cancer.HTM
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| | Bone Cancer Treatment Center |
| | Treatment for bone cancer depends on the location, size, type, and stage of the tumor, how long you have had symptoms, your age and general health. | | | The most common symptoms of osteosarcoma are pain and swelling of a bone or a bone region. | | | The two most common types of bone cancer are Ewings sarcoma and osteosarcoma, which is described here. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Benign ear cyst or tumor |
| | Benign bony tumors of the ear canal (exostoses and osteomas) may be caused by an overgrowth of bone. | | | If the cyst or tumor is not painful and does not interfere with hearing, treatment is not necessary. | | | Benign cysts and tumors are usually discovered during a routine ear examination. |
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| | HealthScout--Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 27, 2004 |
| | Volunteers who have one or two metastatic bone tumor (s) causing pain and whose pain persists when on pain medication may be able to participate. | | | A research study to determine if Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) reduces the pain of metastatic bone tumors in patients who have not received adequate pain relief from conventional therapies. | | | A research study for patients diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) that has been attributed to another medical condition. |
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http://healthscout.net/news/1/521434/main.html
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