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Volume 7 Issue 7 (July, 2019)

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Retrospective Evaluation of CT findings of Chondrosarcoma
Gunjan Das, Saurabh Agarwal

Background: Chondrosarcoma is the commonest primary sarcoma of bone in adults, with a male predominance. Chondrosarcomas characteristically produce coalescent cartilage lobules of various sizes. Hence; the present study was undertaken for assessing of CT findings of patients with chondrosarcoma. Materials & methods: A total of 65 cases were screened during the study period. Complete clinical and histopathologic details of all the cases were obtained. Only those cases were included in which confirmed histopathologic diagnosis of Chondrosarcoma was made. A separate chart was prepared for recording the Computed tomography (CT) findings of all the patients. All the results were recorded and were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Cortical destruction, Pathologic fractures, Intra-osseous matric mineralization and Soft tissue mass containing chondroid areas were predominant CT findings observed, found to be present in 80 percent, 38.46 percent, 30.77 percent and 18.46 percent of the patients respectively.  Conclusion: Radiologists and orthopedic surgeons should be alert of the various types of chondrosarcomas as they are the commonest malignances involving bone in adults.
Key words: Chondrosarcoma, Computed tomography

Received: 17 March, 2019                                         Revised:  26 April 2019                             Accepted: 27 April 2019

Corresponding Author: Dr. Saurabh Agarwal, Associate Professor, Department of  Orthopaedics, Career Institute of Medical Sciences & Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 

This article may be cited as: Das G,  Agarwal S. Retrospective Evaluation of CT findings of Chondrosarcoma. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2019;7(7): 187-189.

 
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