Aggressive osteoblastoma
β Scribed by P. A. Revell; C. L. Scholtz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 816 KB
- Volume
- 127
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-3417
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β¦ Synopsis
The clinical, radiological and pathological features of two cases of an osteogenic tumour with long survival are described. The tumours have the histological pattern of benign osteoblastoma with other more cellular and aggressive features suggestive of a low grade osteosarcoma. They are locally invasive but the absence of metastases indicates that separation from both entities is justified clinically and pathologically. The term aggressive osteoblastoma is suggested.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A case of cervical spine (atlas) osteoblastoma in a 14-year-old patient is reported. Osteoblastoma is a rare primary bone tumour and in young patients it mainly occurs in the spine. Occurrence in the cervical tract is uncommon and in the atlas it is very rare. Only two other cases were found in our