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Sections were taken from the center, midzone, and margin of four human osteogenic sarcomas and one fibrosarcoma. Single-cell suspensions of tumors were examined in an indirect immunofluorescence assay with autologous or homologous anti-osteogenic sarcoma antisera as the intermediate reactant and fluorescein-labeled anti-human IgG as the final reactant. Cells were stained under conditions in which the fluorescence intensity was directly proportional to the density of the tumor-associated antigen on these cells. The density of tumor-associated antigen on cells from the center of the five tumor masses was low; cells from the midzone had intermediate levels of tumor antigen density, and cells at the margin had the highest levels. Similar preparations stained with polyspecific anti-HLA antisera did not demonstrate such a gradient. Since osteogenic sarcomas grow outward from the center, with the outer margin populated by the youngest cells, these results suggest that the oldest cells in the tumor bear the least tumor antigen, and the youngest tumor cells have the most. This is not compatible with theories which postulate that the immune system modulates the growth of a tumor so that only the least antigenic cells are allowed to grow. Alternative mechanisms are discussed.
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PMID:Antigenic differences among osteogenic sarcoma tumor cells taken from different locations in human tumors. 6 91

Whole lung computed tomography (CT) was performed on 25 patients with clinical diagnoses including osteogenic sarcoma. Ewing's sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, and melanoma in whom conventional tomography had revealed from one to four parenchymal nodules in one lung deemed resectable for either staging or treatment purposes. Thoracotomy was performed within 3 weeks after conventional and computed whole lung tomography. All palpable nodules were resected, measured at the time of surgery, mapped by anatomic segment, and submitted for individual histologic evaluation. CT defined more nodules than conventional tomography in 48% of cases. The additional nodules were usually pleural or subpleural and 3--6 mn in diameter. CT identified 78% of all resected nodules greater than 3 mm in diameter, compared to 59% using conventional tomography. CT was also of value in detecting bilateral nodules earlier than conventional tomography and in documenting small nodule growth on successive examination. However, 60% of the additional nodules defined by CT and resected proved to be benign granulomas and pleural-based nodes at thoracotomy.
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PMID:Comparison of computed and conventional whole lung tomography in detecting pulmonary nodules: a prospective radiologic-pathologic study. 1642 28

Bone cancer can be induced by radionuclides that localize in the skeleton. Histologically, these experimentally induced tumors resemble those found naturally in man; they range from densely ossified osteogenic sarcomas to osteolytic tumors with giant cells and only a small osteoid component. Fibrosarcomas and hemangiosarcomas also can occur in some species. It has not been possible to determine the dose in terms of absorbed energy necessary for bone-tumor induction because radionuclides are not deposited uniformly, and they diminish in amount with time. Also, the precise time when irreversible noeplastic change occurs is not known. With X-rays, however, 500 rads delivered to the endosteal surface of a mouse femur has been shown to cause osteogenic sarcoma. Bone tumors can be induced in mice by viruses. FBJ osteosarcoma virus and RFB osteoma virus were obtained from spontaneous tumors; FBR osteosarcoma virus came from a radiation-induced tumor. All three are RNA viruses with C-type particle morphology, and they are propagated by injecting cell-free extracts of virus-induced tumor. All three are RNA viruses with C-type particle morphology, and they are propagated by injecting cell-free extracts of virus-induced tumor into newborn mice. Interaction studies with bone-seeking radionuclides and these viruses have led to the hypothesis that radiation produces cancer by inactivating a viral inhibitor. There is also evidence of a bone tumor virus in the human disease. The injection of cell-free extracts of human bone cancer into newborn Syrian hamsters has induced a variety of mesenchymal tumors at a rate significantly higher than in the control hamsters. Sixty tumors of this type, including 20 osteosarcomas, 11 fibrosarcomas, and 9 osteomas, have been diagnosed so far in experimental animals; in control hamsters there has been only one, a fibrosarcoma. Immunofluorescence assays and cytotoxicity studies indicated that these hamster tumors carried a human antigen.
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PMID:Pathogenesis of radiation and virus-induced bone tumors. 18 72

Osteosarcoma of bone is a recognizable entity if the histopathologist designates tumors as such when their malignatn cells produce osteoid substance even if only in small foci. Such definition distinguishes this lesion from other sarcomas that arise in bone, especially chondrosarcoma and fibrosarcoma. There is a general tendency to consider that osteosarcomas represent a stereotyped form of disease for which new modalities of treatment can be applied and assessed. The question of whether a given osseous lesion is actually malignant and not a benign neoplasm or even a reactive non-neoplastic condition simulating a malignant tumor may be difficult for the histopathologist. Pathologists without considerable experience in the diagnosis of bone tumors find this question especially vexing. The establishment of a valid diagnosis of osteosarcoma introduces the additional problem that the 11 varieties considered in this paper may pose significant recognizable variations in the clinical capability of the disease. It is apparent that the physician must recognize the known clinicopathologic and prognostic factors of these subtypes in his assessment of the overall problem.
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PMID:Osteosarcoma of bone and its important recognizable varieties. 20 2

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of soft part is rather common but malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the bone is rarely encountered clinically. Authors present five cases of malignant fibrous histiocytoma with skeletal involvement and discuss their clinical course, x-ray findings and histological features. This tumor has marked tendency for local recurrence and metastasis. Other bone tumors such as giant cell tumor, aneurysmal bone cyst, non ossifying fibroma, osteosarcoma, fibrosarcoma of bone and metastatic cancer can be excluded by several characteristic findings observed in x-rays as well as histopathological features. All information on the patient should be carefully analysed, because it is difficult to decide whether bone involvement is primary or secondary. Four out of five cases definitely originated within the bone.
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PMID:Malignant fibrous histiocytoma with skeletal involvement. 21 2

Thirty-five cases of primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone are reported. Twenty of these cases were collected from a retrospective analysis of other malignant bone tumors. The age range was from 11 to 69 years; the average age was 34 years. The tumor occurred most commonly in the distal femur and proximal tibia. The distinguishing histologic feature was a storiform arrangement of spindle cells. The differential diagnosis included fibrosarcoma, osteogenic sarcoma, malignant giant cell tumor, malignant lymphoma, and metastatic carcinoma. Follow-up of at least three years was available in 21 cases. Of these, nine patients were alive and free of metastases three and one-half to 12 years after treatment. Two were alive with solitary metastases at three years, and 10 patients died between three months and three years after treatment. In four cases the lesions were multicentric at the time of diagnosis and in four cases were associated with bone infarction. This tumor must be recognized as an important complication of bone infarction and should be suspected when a patient with a known history of bone infarction develops a change in symptoms. Because the prognosis of this tumor is significantly better than that in those tumors with which it had been previously grouped, and in view of its association with bone infarction, it deserves to be maintained as a distinct clinicopathologic entity. Amputation is the treatment of choice.
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PMID:Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone: a study of 35 cases. 21 83

A mixed malignant tumour of the lung intermediate in type between pulmonary blastoma and carcinosarcoma is described. The epithelial component consisted of squamous carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, and clefts lined by bland epithelial cells. The supporting stroma was composed of pleomorphic sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, osteosarcoma, and indeterminate mesenchymal tissue. The tumour was removed surgically, but the patient died postoperatively with rapidly developing multiple bony and soft tissue metastases. Subcutaneous metastases showed the appearnce of poorly differentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. Published reports of mixed malignant lung tumours are reviewed.
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PMID:Mixed malignant tumour of the lung. 22 82

Eleven cases of sarcoma in Paget's disease of bone are presented, together with an extensive review of the literature. These neoplasms are rare but not exceptional, and mostly affect male subjects in the seventh decade of life. The sites most frequently affected are the pelvis, femur and humerus. In 30 per cent of cases these neoplasms are multifocal. Radiographically the lesions are nearly always osteolytic. The radiographic diagnosis may, however, be quite difficult, especially in the presence of the severe (but benign) osteolyic lesions that sometimes occur in Paget's disease. Morphologically these tumours are mostly highly polymorphic sarcomas. The cases in this series were diagnosed histologically as osteosarcoma, grade 3 fibrosarcoma, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma; but there are no prognostic differences between the various histological types. The prognosis is very serious, only about 3 per cent of patients surviving for five years from the time of diagnosis. Therapy, unfortunately nearly always palliative, is based on amputation or disarticulation after sections biopsy in cases where the disease is localised to the limbs, and on radiotherapy in cases not amenable to surgery.
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PMID:Sarcoma in Paget's disease (11 cases). 23 74

Undiluted, fivefold-diluted, and 25-fold-diluted doses of a stock of Moloney murine sarcoma virus were injected directly, in a volume of 0.025 ml, into the backs of fetal Sprague-Dawley rats by laparotomy through the uterine wall at 18 days of gestation. During the first 8 weeks after birth the young responded to the virus with remarkably high but dose-dependent incidences of neoplasms. When a one-fifth dilution of the virus preparation was inoculated at fetal ages 16, 18, and 20 days, the incidences of lesions decreased with advancing fetal age. The tumors developed preferentially at the virus inoculation site and/or in the proximal parts of the extremeties; all were considered to be of mesenchymal derivation, i.e., malignant mesenchymoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, fibrosarcoma or fibromyxosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma, plasmacytoma, and a giant cell tumor. This injection procedure provided us with a valuable experimental tool for the rapid screening or testing of potential chemical carcinogens and other biologic studies.
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PMID:Enhancement of tumor induction in rats with Moloney murine sarcoma virus by a "new" method based on direct injection into fetuses. 26 91

The latency period, success rate, and minimal cell inoculum size required for transplantation of continuously passaged human tumor lines into congenitally athymic (nude) mice, antilymphocyte serum (ALS)-treated congenitally athymic (nude) mice, and congenitally athymic-asplenic (lasat) mice were compared. The 11 tumor lines studied included examples of breast adenocarcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, osteosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, malignant melanoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma. Of these 11 tumor lines, 3 were successfully transplanted into nude mice, compared to 5 of 10 tumor lines in ALS-treated nude mice and 9 of 11 lines in lasat mice. Moreover, the latency period was shorter and the minimal cell inoculum size was lower for lasat mice than for either nude or ALS-treated nude mice. Despite this enhancement of heterotransplantation into lasat mice and despite the growth of large local masses, no evidence of distant metastases was found.
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PMID:Enhancement of heterotransplanted human tumor graft survival in nude mice treated with antilymphocyte serum and in congenitally athymic-asplenic (Lasat) mice. 27 31


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