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VETERINARY-Tumors and tumor-like lesions of bones

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Most bone tumors in dogs are malignant. True of False?   True  
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What is the most common and important bone tumor of dogs and cats?   Osteosarcoma  
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Where do osteosarcomas usually occur?   Predilection sites are proxmimal humerus, distal radius, distal femur, and proximal tibia (also at sites of chronic irritation like metal implants)  
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What is the likely behavior of a canine osteosarcoma?   Highly malignant, metastasis to lungs, survival 14-19 weeks  
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Osteosarcomas are 80% of primary bone tumors in dogs. True or False?   True  
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Chondrosarcomas are only 10% of canine bone tumors in medium to large breeds. True or False?   True  
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What bones to chondrosarcomas usually occur in?   Generally involves flat bones,(ribs, pelvis, nasal turbinates)  
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What is a benign tumor that only enlarges until the skeleton matures?   Osteochondroma  
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Osteochondromas have a cap of hyaline cartilage, the marrow cavity of the mass is continuous with that of the underlying bone. True or False?   True  
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This is a tumor that adheres firmly to the surface of maxillary bone and is locally invasive.   Maxillary fibrosarcoma  
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What are characteristics of a plasma cell myeloma?   Lytic lesions in bone marrow, hyperproteinemia  
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Osteosarcomas can be found in mammary tissue. True or False?   True  
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Squamous cell carcinomas invade bone. True or False?   True  
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Name 2 malignant tumors of joints.   Synovial sarcoma and histiocytic sarcoma  
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