Secondary osteosarcoma (in a dog) after bone fracture healed on the secondary type
Solov'ev, I.N.; Mitin, V.N.; Garanin, D.V.; Frolov, V.I.
Arkhiv Patologii 60(4): 41-44
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 9791694 Document Number: 487739
A case is reported of osteosarcoma arising in a dog after the fracture of the femur. The tumor was diagnosed 6 years after the trauma. We suppose that the cause of malignant transformation in this case was a permanent mechanical trauma, restructuration and regeneration of the bone. This mechanism, possibly, also may take place in the genesis of primary osteosarcomas.