Pathological study of bone tumours at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

Clinicopathological guide to malignant bone tumours: A retrospective analysis of the cancer registry at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in northern Tanzania

“…General distributions of this study agree with already existing data: the male dominance, 5,6,7 the male-to-female ratio, 8 age range of 2 to 75 years, 9 the femur being the leading tumour site, 5,9 and osteosarcoma being the leading tumour type. 5,7 The main cardinal signs for malignant tumours in this study were pain (85.6%), swelling (84%), and pathological fractures (18.7%).…”

Study of prevalence of primary bone tumors at a tertiary care centre in Central India

“…In our study, benign tumors (51.6%) were marginally more common than malignant tumors (48.4%). This is in concordance with other studies [6][7][8] .…”

Pattern and Distribution of Primary Bone Tumours in Jos Nigeria

“…This is in agreement with the study by Abdulkareem (11) where bening bone tumours made up about two thirds of all bone tumours.The commonesthistologicalpathological variety of benign bone tumours in this study wereosteochondroma (17.9%)and giant cell tumours (17.9%). Studies by Mohammed et al (12)from north western Nigeria andAbdulkarrem et al (11)from south western Nigeria, also showed these as being the commonest variant of benign bone tumours.It can be assumed then that this may be the pattern throughout the country .Herget et al(13) also found osteochondroma as the commonest benign bone tumour in Germany. These tumours typically affect individuals in the second and third decades of life, may thus occur as the predominant variety in Nigeria which has a life expectancy of approximately 47years (14).…”