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Malignant Bone Tumors

PathologyBone tumors

Classification by Histological Cell of Origin

  1. Osteogenic
  2. Chondrogenic
    • Chondrosarcoma
  3. Fibrogenic
    • Fibrosarcoma
    • Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma
  4. Notocordal
    • Chordoma
  5. Vascular
    • Haemangiondothelioma
  6. Haemopoetic
    • Lymphoma
    • Myeloma
  7. Miscellaneous
    • Ewing’s Sarcoma
    • Adamantinoma
  8. Metastatic Bone Disease

Related FRCS revision notes

Metastatic Bone DiseaseChondrosarcomaBenign Bone TumoursOsteosarcomaPrinciples of Bone OncologyOther malignant tumors

Linked from

← Bone tumors← Benign Bone Tumours← Chondrosarcoma← Malignant Soft Tissue Tumours← Metastatic Bone Disease← Miscellaneous Conditions (Bone tumors)← Osteosarcoma← Other malignant tumors← Principles of Bone Oncology← Tumour-like Lesions of Bone

Written/reviewed by Kishore Puthezhath

Professor of Orthopaedics and Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

FRCS (Tr & Orth) revision resource

Reviewed: September 2026

Core revision references: Miller's Review of Orthopaedics; Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics; Orthobullets. Current specialty guidelines are linked within individual notes where applicable.