title: Metastatic bone tumours.
abstract: A total of 24 cases of metastatic bone tumours were encountered over the last 6 years. Majority of these lesions (70.8%) were found in the 4th to 6th decades of life with a slight male preponderance. The axial skeleton was involved in majority of the cases (62.5%), the spine being the commonest site of tumour metastasis. A large proportion of the metastatic bone tumours were adenocarcinomas (62.5%) and the lung was the commonest primary site followed by the breast and large intestine. In 41.7% of the patients the bone metastasis was the initial manifestation of the malignant disease which was subsequently detected after investigations. In 20.8% of the cases the primary tumour remained undetected even after through investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Mysorekar
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Dandekar
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000175:diagnosis; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis