A tumor on the leg can begin with various diseases that arise in the musculoskeletal system of our body. These tumors appear when a knee injury occurs in a disease called osteoporosis. Swelling in the leg can also occur with gout. Doctors usually excrete various causes swollen, as well as their symptoms.
The following symptoms of a tumor exist in medicine:
- redness on the surface of the skin where the tumor is located;
- patients complain of frequent and increased swelling of the limbs or the joints themselves;
- examinations show that with a tumor on the leg, brittle bones appear at the sites of the disease, most often this symptom occurs in children;
- it is very difficult to move the leg, this is due to intense pain;
- acute and aching joint pain, which lasts a long time without ceasing, is one of the most important and noticeable symptoms. Insomnia may develop due to severe pain. If the pain is constant and does not give you rest, you should immediately consult a doctor.
Usually, when a person has a tumor of the knee joint, then this is a transient phenomenon. But with diseases of the musculoskeletal system - this phenomenon is observed constantly during the period of exacerbation.
Scientists distinguish two types of tumors on the leg, in which the doctor will accurately determine at what stage the disease develops:
- primary;
- secondary.
In medical practice, primary tumors are very rarely detected and found, and secondary ones are very dangerous, most importantly, you need to find this tumor in time, while it is in its incipient stage, and neutralize it. The treatment options for these types of tumors are completely different. But, most importantly, that you consult a doctor in a timely manner, and he will prescribe the necessary treatment.
The most popular and common is a tumor on the leg called myeloma. Of the 100 percent of all cases, it is 40 nowadays - these are very impressive and significant figures. Myeloma looks like a tumor that spreads in a person’s bone marrow. This tumor is secondary.
Osteogenic sarcoma is in second place after myeloma. This swelling on the leg is primary and accounts for 33 percent of all cases. Sarcoma is found on the legs (it is a tumor of the knee composition) and is less common on the hands. According to statistics, this disease affects teenage children, and mostly boys.
Chondrosarcoma ranks third in prevalence, accounting for 13 percent. It is found on the upper legs. Doctors most often recognize it in middle-aged and even elderly people. Basically, this type of tumor is again affected by men. This disease is primary.
Histiocytoma is very rare. This disease spreads in the area of the knee joint. But the tumor does not spare anyone. It is mainly found in the elderly, both in men and women.
Doctors identify the causes of these types of diseases, which are as follows:
- where the primary type of tumors comes from is not well understood. Those people who have chronic bone diseases, are primarily at risk for the further development of osteogenic sarcoma, but in old age. This tumor is found in a small number of people;
- secondary tumors on the leg develop due to the once-obtained primary tumor, but already in other organs of the person. Very rarely there are cases when the primary tumor develops into primary cancer at the initial stage. The worst thing is that primary cancer does not show any symptoms that the tumor develops in the human body. Often it makes itself felt only at the last stage of the disease.