1. Epidemiology of bone tumors in Lebanon: a retrospective study from 2000 to 2022 at a tertiary center
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Mohammad Daher, Ziad Zalaquett, Elio Mekhael, Marven Aoun, Ralph Chalhoub, Majd Abdo, Marc Aoude, Sami Abi Farraj, Ali Ghoul, Jean Tarchichi, Joe Rassi, Amer Sebaaly, Viviane Trak-Smayra, Carole Kesrouani, Hampig-Raphaël Kourie, and Ismat Ghanem
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bone metastasis ,bone tumors ,epidemiology ,Ewing's sarcoma ,Middle-East ,osteosarcoma ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Aim: Bone tumors are rare and have an uneven geographic distribution. Methods: 730 patients diagnosed with bone tumors were included in this retrospective analysis. Results: With a 64% rate of malignancy, the most common tumors were metastasis (40%) mostly in the axial skeleton, Osteosarcoma (9%) mostly in the femur, Osteochondroma (8%) mostly in the femur, giant cell tumors (7%) mostly in the knee, and Ewing's sarcoma (6%) mostly in the axial skeleton. Conclusion: Even though a some of the tumors have a predilection for certain localizations in the human body, they may differ in the middle-eastern population. One must also pay attention to the higher rates of malignancies as compared with other cohorts.
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- 2023
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