Bone or cartilage mass evaluation
Initial patients evaluation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History and Symptoms ❑ Pain ❑ Response to analgesics Physical examination Age | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imaging | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1) Conventional radiography ❑ What type of bone is involved? ❑ Location of the lesion ❑ Morphology of the lesion ❑ Type of calcified matrix involved ❑ Size 2) CT/MRI scan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
More than 30 years Adults | Less than 30 years Children and adolescents | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See adult evaluation of bone and cartilage mass | Lesion characteristics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Well-defined | Ill-defined lesions | Sclerotic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
❑ Chondroblastoma ❑ Fibrous dysplasia ❑ Aneurysmal bone cyst ❑ Simple bone cyst ❑ Non ossifying fibroma ❑ Chondromyxoid fibroma ❑ Infection | ❑ Ewing tumor ❑ Eosinophilic granuloma ❑ Osteosarcoma ❑ Infection | ❑ Osteosarcoma ❑ Osteoid osteoma ❑ Fibrous dysplasia ❑ Eosinophilic granuloma ❑ Infection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||