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Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions of Bone and Joints

Abstract

Among the wide variety of human tumors, primary bone tumors are comparatively rare, which explains why only a few centers have been able to collect an appreciable number of cases. A major factor in the progress in bone tumors study was the establishment of regional tumor centers or registries, following the American example, in many countries (Holland, Sweden, England, Japan, Latin America, and others). Having centralized data-collection centers makes it possible to assemble in a relatively short time abundant material that can be used in standardizing terminology and diagnosis, in carrying out research and epidemiologic studies, and above all in teaching and training medical specialists. The latter task is of fundamental importance because the majority of pathologists have little opportunity to acquire sufficient experience with this group of skeletal lesions, the study of which moreover requires certain technical expertise not possessed by all of them.

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  1. National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director, Head, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

  2. International Reference Center for Histo-Pathologic Diagnosis of Bone Tumors and Allied Diseases, World Health Organization and Latin American Registry of Bone Pathology, Argentina

    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director, Head, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

  3. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director, Head, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

  4. Osteo-Articular Pathology Center, Hospital Italiano, Gascon 450, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director, Head, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

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Schajowicz, F. (1981). Introduction. In: Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions of Bone and Joints. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0098-4_1

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