Lecture 2B: Pragmatic Approach to Pediatric Bone Tumors

What to do in practice - pick up the lesion, don't screw up, and make a diagnosis if absolutely sure, else advise a biopsy

Bhavin Jankharia

Sep 16, 2023

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This is the companion video to the first one that I had posted 3 days ago, which discussed the standard approach to pediatric bone tumors based on the X-ray and MRI appearance, zone of transition, periosteal reaction, matrix, age, sex, location, etc.

However, in practice, a more pragmatic approach is required, the main aim being to avoid WHOOPs lesions and to avoid unnecessary work-up for leave-alone lesions like non-ossifying fibroma and osteochondroma.

This 25-minutes video discusses this pragmatic approach.

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Bhavin Jankharia

December 25, 2021

Primary Bone Tumors Osteogenic Osteoid Osteoma Case 18: 23-years old with right arm pain - osteoid osteoma Osteoblastoma Case 19: 60-years old man with a talar lesion - osteoblastoma Osteosarcoma Case 3: 18-years old with knee pain - distal femur osteosarcoma

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Approach to Pediatric Bone Tumors

The first lecture of this 2-part series.

Lecture 2A: Approach to Pediatric Bone Tumors - ISPR - Sep 2023

Bhavin Jankharia

Sep 14

Text This is a lecture I recorded last week as a prelude to the lecture that I delivered in-person, which was a pragmatic approach to pediatric bone tumors, but one that builds on this lecture. This lecture will help you understand how to evaluate pediatric bone tumors (with a couple of adult cases), using both X-rays and MRI to diagnose, characterize and…

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