X-RAY diagnosis of bone tumors.

Abstract

IT has been exceedingly difficult to make this paper what I had contemplated. I am aware that the subject is not an easy one, either from the diagnostic or therapeutic standpoint. After going over the paper several times, I feel that I have not accomplished what I anticipated. It was my wish to make it comprehensive, also elementary, but, due to the scarcity of direct findings, it is very difficult to convey to the listener or reader how the diagnosis can be made from constant direct findings. Before going any farther with the paper we must make this admission. The exact diagnosis of all bone tumors from the X-ray findings is impossible. At least this has been our experience. That the X-rays are of great value in the diagnosis of bone tumors is admitted by all those interested in the subject. A neoplasm is a pathological newgrowth which tends to persist independently of the structure in which it lies and which performs no physiological function. The cells of a tumor may and often do functionate, as the li...