Cartilage tumors, also known as chondrogenic tumors, are a type of bone tumor that develop in cartilage, and are divided into non-cancerous, cancerous and intermediate locally aggressive types.[1][2][3]
Type of cartilage tumor | Name |
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Non-cancerous | Subungal exostosis[2] |
Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation[2] | |
Periosteal chondroma[2] | |
Enchondroma[2] | |
Osteochondroma[2] | |
Chondroblastoma[2] | |
Chondromyxoid fibroma[2] | |
Osteochondromyxoma[2] | |
Locally aggressive | Chondromatosis[2] |
Atypical cartilaginous tumor[2] | |
Cancerous (chondrosarcoma) | Conventional chondrosarcoma grade I-III[2] |
Clear cell chondrosarcoma[2] | |
Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma[2] | |
Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma[2] |