Abstract
Introduction: The bone neoplasm is a pathology that alters the homeostasis of bone producing an alteration with different connotations depending on the benignity or malignancy of the process. The imaging study provides a series of information that is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of this pathology. The aim of this trial was to establish the characteristics of imaging of bone tumors in patients cared for in the Juan Tanca Marengo Hospital.
Methods: In Juan Tanca Marengo hospital from Guayaquil-Ecuador, conducted a study of descriptive observational retrospective in which were not randomly all cases of bone Neoplasms requiring imaging at the hospital in 2012. Statistical analysis: we used simple, relative frequencies, averages and deviation standard according to the characteristics of the variables.
Results: the mean age among patients with primary bone tumors was lower than among metastases (25.4 years vs. 32.8 years). Male patients were more frequent among patients with primary lesions (56, 0% 37.5%). Cortical involvement was higher among patients with bone tumor metastatic than between primary tumors (62.5% vs 39.3%). Other characteristics did not differ.
Conclusion: The majority of the features imaging are not exclusive type (primary or metastatic) bone lesion. The characteristics of age and gender help diagnostic images of bone tumoral lesions orientation.