Osteosarcoma of the jaw bones

Gnathic Osteosarcoma: A Retrospective Analysis over a 20 Year Period

“…Radiographically, lesion can be osteolytic, osteoblastic or mixture of the two with poorly defined margins. 3 In the present data also, most of them were mixed lesions with both lucency and opacity with irregular borders.…”

“…3,4 These lesions commonly seen in fourth decade, though it is reported with a wide age range. 10 OS of long bones affects mainly adolescents and young adults, where as gnathic OS seen mainly in middle age (third to fourth decade of life).…”

“…3 The demographic data of OS varies in different population. [4][5][6][7][8][9] We wanted to assess the clinico-pathologic correlation of OS in Indians and correlate with other races.…”

Gnathic Osteosarcomas- An Institutional Experience Of 10 Cases

“…The 5-year survival for patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy is 33% and for those treated with surgery alone is 41% [29].Surgery followed by radiation or chemoradiation is reported to have better survival by some authorities [30,31,32].In our study, the use of an adjuvant treatment could not demonstrate a statistical difference in survival within the treatment groups. However, the degree of necrosis in the primary tumor after induction chemotherapy remains prognostic in metastatic osteosarcoma.…”

Differential enhancement of collagen crosslink excretion in cases of osteosarcoma and chondrosarcoma

“…(Acil et al 1996) Consequently, the measurement of HP and LP in patients with osteosarcoma or chondrosarcoma aged 14 years or younger is of limited value. This means that the method presented in this paper is of limited value in some of the patients with osteosarcoma, because the highest incidence is observed in the second decade of life (Chindia 2001). We used samples of people being 16 years of age or older to establish the control group.…”