title: An approach to primary bone tumors.
abstract: This article is designed to provide the busy, practicing physician with the essential information needed to approach the patient with a primary bone tumor. An algorithm provides a suitable method of assessing most patients with bone tumors, recognizing slight modification is necessary in each case. Following this approach should allow successful accomplishment of the therapeutic triad: (1) do not "over-treat" a benign bone tumor, (2) do not "under-treat" a malignant bone tumor, and (3) do not misdirect the biopsy approach to the lesion so as to convert a more conservative operation into a more radical operation.
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors: R P
authors: RP
authors: Moser
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Madewell
mesh_terms: D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000473:pathology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed