[Classification of skeletal neoplasms (author's transl)].
Complete documentation of the pathological spectrum of a great many similar cancer patients requires interdisciplinary coordination and the absence of ambition of any particular branch. The application of a TNM system devised by the authors for the classification of skeletal neoplasms showed in a retrospective study of 600 cases that the degree of infiltration into the periosteum and soft tissue, which opens more lymphatics to metastasizing tumor cells, is a more relevant parameter of the TNM system than the size of the tumor itself.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000145:classification / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D009626:Terminology as Topic
Klassifikation der Knochensarkome