Glossary for Ewing's sarcoma

• Bone and cartilage tumors: Any tumors affecting the bones or cartilage, including both cancerous and benign tumors.
• Bone cancer: Malignancy that occurs in the bone
• Bone conditions: Conditions that affect the bones
• CRMO, juvenile: A rare chronic inflammatory bone disease that occurs in children. The symptoms go into periods of remission only to return. The most common sites for the inflammation are the shinbone, thighbone and collarbone with usually several sites being affected at once.
• Cancer: Abnormal overgrowth of body cells.
• Child health conditions: Any medical conditions typically afflicting children.
• Ewing's sarcoma: Ewing's sarcoma is a malignant round-cell tumor. It is a rare disease in which cancer cells are found in the bone or in soft tissue. The most common areas in which it occurs are the pelvis, the femur, the humerus, and the ribs.
• Leg conditions: Conditions that affect ones leg
• Local swelling: The localized swelling of a body part
• Local tenderness: pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
• Osteomyelitis: A bone inflammation caused by bacteria. The inflammation usually originates in another part of the body and is transported to the bone via the blood.
• Pain: A feeling of suffering, agony, distress caused by the stimulation of pain fibres in the nervous system
• Pathological fracture: The occurrence of a fracture a bone of the body caused by a disease state
• Pelvic pain: Pelvic pain is usually elated to pain due to visceral organs situated in the pelvic area such as uterus, bladder..
• Pelvis conditions: Any condition that affects the pelvis
• Pelvis swelling: Usually occurs due to trauma.
• Sarcoma: A malignant carcinoma that is located in connective tissue
• Teen health conditions: Medical conditions typically afflicting teenagers.
• Thigh conditions: Any condition that affects the thigh

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