Chapter 42: Musculoskeletal Tumours

Journal articles

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0748798305002076?via%3Dihub/ (paid)

Surveillance study of patients who had sarcoma of the extremities.

https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/Fulltext/2003/10000/The_Classic__A_System_for_the_Surgical_Staging_of.2.aspx/ (free)

Enneking’s staging for bone tumours (classic paper).

https://journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/Citation/1982/64080/The_hazards_of_biopsy_in_patients_with_malignant.2.aspx/ (paid)

Principles of biopsy for patients with suspected malignancy in the bone or soft tissue (classic paper).

http://rlhots.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Metastatic-disease-in-long-bones-Scoring-system-for-impending-fracture-Mirel.pdf/ (free)

Mirels’ paper on the prediction of pathological fracture risk (classic paper).

https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/0301-620X.87B12.16629/ (free)

Treatment strategy for patients with metastatic lesions of the proximal femur.

Guidelines

http://www.boos.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BOOS-MBD-2016-BOA.pdf/ (free)

Good practice guidelines for the treatment of metastatic bone disease from the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Orthopaedic Oncology Society.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109663/ (free)

Good practice guidelines for the management of soft-tissue sarcomas (UK guidelines).

https://clinicalsarcomaresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13569-016-0047-1 (free)

Good practice guidelines for the management of bone sarcomas (UK guidelines).