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The distinction between chondroma and chondrosarcoma using chemical element mass fractions in tumors determined by neutron activation analysis as diagnostic markers

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The Ca, Cl, Mg, Na, and P content and Ca/P, Ca/Mg, Ca/Na, Cl/Ca, and Cl/Na ratios in tissue of intact bone, chondroma and chondrosarcoma were investigated by neutron activation analysis. It was shown that higher mass fraction of Cl and Na and also Cl/Na mass fraction ratio as well as lower Ca/Cl and Ca/Na mass fraction ratios are typical of the chondrosarcoma tissue compared to chondroma. Finally, it was proposed to use the estimation of such parameters as the Cl mass fraction and the Ca/Cl and Ca/Na mass fraction ratios as an additional test for differential diagnosis between chondroma and chondrosarcoma.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the late Prof. V. A. Bizer, Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, for supplying chondroma and chondrosarcoma samples.

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  1. Radionuclide Diagnostics Department, Medical Radiological Research Centre, Koroleva St. 4, Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia, 249036

    Vladimir Zaichick

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Sofia Zaichick

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Zaichick, V., Zaichick, S. The distinction between chondroma and chondrosarcoma using chemical element mass fractions in tumors determined by neutron activation analysis as diagnostic markers. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 309, 285–293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4810-9

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