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Cartilage-Forming Tumors
Cartilage-Forming Tumors
Bone-forming tumors
•Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma
•Osteosarcoma
Cartilage-forming tumors
•Osteochondroma
• Chondroma
• Chondrosarcoma
Osteochondroma
• also known as an exostosis
• benign, cartilage-capped tumor that is attached to the underlying
skeleton by a bony stalk
• most common benign bone tumor
• 85% are solitary
• usually first diagnosed in late adolescence and early adulthood
• develop only in bones of endochondral origin and arise from the
metaphysis near the growth plate of long tubular bones, especially
near the knee
Osteochondroma: Pathogenesis
• Multiple enchondromas
• Ollier disease, and
• Maffucci syndrome - distinguished by presence of spindle cell hemangiomas
Chondroma: Pathogenesis