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Clinico-Morphological Pattern And Frequency Of Bone Cancer, Sajid H. Shah, Suhail Muzaffar, Irshad N. Soomro, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan
Clinico-Morphological Pattern And Frequency Of Bone Cancer, Sajid H. Shah, Suhail Muzaffar, Irshad N. Soomro, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Objective:
The present study was done to find out the frequency of malignant tumors of bone and to categorize the prevelence of various histological types of osseous malignancies with respect to age, sex and site of origin.
Setting:
This study included consecutive cases of malignant bone tumors, which were diagnosed in the department of pathology at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi during the period of three years (1995-1997).
Methods:
These tumors were initially evaluated on H & E stained section from paraffin embedded tissue blocks. Special stains and immunohistochemical analysis was performed whenever required.
Results:
A total of 169 …