[Primary malignant bone tumors. Clinical aspects and therapy. Vienna Bone Tumor Registry].

Diagnosis, concepts of therapy and prognosis of primary malignant bone tumors require intensive cooperation between orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and pathologists with special knowledge in oncology. The present paper demonstrates relevant topics of diagnosis, radiological appearance and therapy of the osteosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, chondrosarcoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma based on the material of the Vienna Bone Tumor Registry and more than 35 years of cooperation between the Institute of Pathology and Anatomy and the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Vienna.