[Microsurgical transplantation of bone tumors of uncertain prognosis in athymic nude mice].

Abstract

Eight cases of human bone or soft tissue tumours were transplanted to nude mice. After such transplants to nude mice which are immunologically deficient, the malignant tumors developed like benign tumours, but maintaining malignant cytological characteristics. The transplants of normal human tissues or of benign tumours decreased in size or remained stable. The technique allowed a change of an original diagnosis of osteosarcoma to a final diagnosis of chondrosarcoma. It made it possible to diagnose a benign osteoblastoma, the diagnosis of which was doubtful before the transplant between osteosarcoma and chondroblastoma. It was possible to diagnose the malignancy of a haemangiopericytoma of muscle. Two aggressive tumours--a non-ossifying fibroma and a giant-cell tumour--were rated as benign after transplantation. This technique also allowed a more precise diagnosis of the grade of one chondrosarcoma and one osteosarcoma. Finally, transplantation also made it possible to test the efficacy of chemotherapy. In a patient so treated, the extreme cell proliferation after transplantation to the nude mouse led to a change in the drugs administered.

• Authors: A Duprez, A Féry, J Sommelet
• Journal: Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur (Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot) Vol. 72 Issue 6 Pg. 381-92 ( 1986) ISSN: 0035-1040 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Transplantation microchirurgicale chez la souris nude athymique des tumeurs osseuses de pronostic incertain.
• PMID: 3467399 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Animals
• Bone Neoplasms (diagnosis, pathology, surgery)
• Chondrosarcoma (diagnosis)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Nude
• Microsurgery
• Neoplasm Transplantation (methods)
• Osteosarcoma (diagnosis)
• Soft Tissue Neoplasms (diagnosis, surgery)
• Transplantation, Heterologous