Cancer and the Skeleton
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: January 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781853177569
Subjects: Orthopaedics & fractures; Orthopedics; Oncology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Medical / Laboratory Medicine
First sentence: All bone diseases are superimposed on the normal process of bone remodeling - the process by which bone renews itself locally in discrete packets which are present on trabecular (cancellous) bone surfaces or in the Haversian systems of cortical (compact) bone.