Many medical problems have musculoskeletal implications. This section discusses some of the more common of those diagnoses, including hemophilia, sickle cell disease, and endocrine and metabolic disorders such as rickets and lysosomal storage disorders.
As with the benign bone tumors, there is no national registry of benign soft tissue tumors. By comparing Dr. Ward's 13 years of practice history from 1991 to 2004 and computing an incidence index relative to that of osteosarcoma, some estimate of the minimal prevalence of surgically treated lesions may be obtained.
