Osteosarcoma Symptoms

Early symptoms of Osteosarcoma is pain, can occur before the tumor appears, initially as intermittent pain, gradually continuing to severe pain, particularly at night especially. Large malignant tumor pain occurred earlier and more intense, often the history of local trauma. Bone-side tumor near joints, and different hardness, and tenderness, local temperatures are high, vein, and sometimes may find pulse, may have pathological fractures. Gradually reduced to physical failure, the majority of patients have pulmonary metastasis within one year.

Osteosarcoma often occurred in adolescents; rapid tumor growth, destruction of alveolar process and mandible, the occurrence of loose teeth, displacement, facial deformity, but also pathological fracture. In the X-ray films showed irregular destruction, from the inside out for the expansion of osteolytic type; cortical destruction, substituting bone hyperplasia, as with solar radiation is a type osteoblasts. Clinically, we can see the performance of both the above-mentioned two types of hybrid. Late in patients with serum calcium, alkaline phosphatase can be increased easily along the blood tumor metastasis to the lung.

To the late development of Osteosarcoma symptoms include fever, weight loss, anemia, and poisoning. Appears lung metastasis lung of patients can be initially asymptomatic, the late emergence of hemoptysis, gas hold and breathing difficulties.