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Primary Malignancy, Secondary Malignancy and Semimalignancy of Bone Tumors

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At the last judgement, human beings were divided into benign and malignant Christians. However, it soon became evident that the two-class system was insufficient and it was necessary to introduce a third category. This third group was reserved for Christians who would have a chance of becoming clean in purgatory and entering Paradise later. Experience with the biologic classification of tumors was similar: between the benign and the malignant types there is an intermediate group. In English literature these intermediate bone tumors are called sarcomas of low-grade malignancy. The German language prefers the term semimalignancy. The two terms do not have quite the same meaning, but are overlapping. I shall attempt to explain what the word semimalignancy really means. It was introduced by ZOLLINGER. The semimalignant sarcomas are characterized by local invasive and destructive growth; they have a tendency to recur but do not metastasize. The intervals between recurrences vary from case to case, lasting weeks, months or years. The histologic structure can be well preserved from recurrence to recurrence in spite of the number of recurrences. The tendency to recur cannot be explained either by specific histologic details or by the structure.

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Uehlinger, E. (1976). Primary Malignancy, Secondary Malignancy and Semimalignancy of Bone Tumors. In: Grundmann, E. (eds) Malignant Bone Tumors. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80997-2_9

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