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By Howard D. Dorfman and Bogdan Czerniak. 1261 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1998. $225. ISBN 0-8151-2746-4.

Bone tumors, one of the least common neoplasms, account for less than 0.2 percent of all cancers. The clinical, radiographic, and pathological understanding and classification of these rare tumors has slowly developed over the past several decades. Henry Jaffe's descriptions of the pathology of bone tumors and his system of classification, recorded in Tumors and Tumorous Conditions of the Bones and Joints (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1958), is the basis for our current understanding of these neoplasms. Howard Dorfman, the senior author of Bone Tumors, was for many years Jaffe's protégé at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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