ba0005p103 | Cancer and bone: basic, translational and clinical | ECTS2016
Divisato Giuseppina
, di Carlo Federica Scotto
, Esposito Teresa
, Pazzaglia Laura
, Benassi Maria Serena
, Merlotti Daniela
, Rendina Domenico
, Gennari Luigi
, Gianfrancesco Fernando
Conventional Giant Cell Tumor of Bone (GCT) is an aggressive bone tumor characterized by malignant mesenchymal stromal cells, responsible for its unusually high population of multinucleated osteoclast-like giant cells. GCT could arise in bones affected by Pagets disease of bone (GCT/PDB) with a different clinical profile regarding the age-onset of the neoplasm (30 years vs 50 years) and the skeletal localization (appendicular skeleton vs cranio-facial bones), let hyphote...