[Chondromas and chondrosarcomas of the hand: their surgical treatment and the long-term results].

Authors show various techniques utilized in surgical treatment of forty-nine hand chondromas, specifying indications, advantages and long term results, and refer on one case with beginning malignancy and one case of chondrosarcoma in the hand. By analysis of clinical, roentgenographic, pathological and evolutive pictures they discuss on their conclusions in malignancy criteria, reporting their surgical choices in treatment of hand chondrogenic malignant tumors.