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Classification of Primary Bone Lesions

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Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions

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Primary bone tumors are classified on the base of their histological differentiation, as reported in the following table. Thay are divided into “benign” (with a limited capacity of local recurrence), “intermediate” (locally aggressive: local recurrence, also in a destructive way; rarely metastasizing: as above also with possible distant metastasis in occasional cases, not predictable on the basis of the morphology), and “malignant,” the latter furtherly divided into low-grade and high-grade malignant.

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Picci, P., Gambarotti, M., Righi, A. (2020). Classification of Primary Bone Lesions. In: Picci, P., et al. Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29676-6_2

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