[Updates to the WHO classification of bone tumours]

Abstract

The fourth edition of the WHO Classification of Soft Tissue and Bone Tumours, published in 2013, extends the approach to describe genetics and pathology of these tumours in the context of epidemiological, clinical and imaging data, which was adopted in the third edition. Added are a few new entities, reclassifications and renamings. The most important point, also of clinical relevance and with consequences for treatment, is the introduction of a stratification of bone tumours based on their biological behaviour into three groups (benign, intermediate, malignant) in analogy to soft tissue tumours.

Keywords: Atypical cartilaginous tumour; Benign notochordal cell tumor; Bone Tumors; Chondromesenchymal hamartoma; ISSVA-classification; Osteochondromyxoma.