Bone or cartilage mass causes

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ogheneochuko Ajari, MB.BS, MS [2]

Causes

Cardiovascular	No underlying causes
Chemical/Poisoning	No underlying causes
Dental	Gardner's syndrome, simple bone cyst
Dermatologic	Melanoma
Drug Side Effect	No underlying causes
Ear Nose Throat	No underlying causes
Endocrine	Carcinoid syndrome, thyroid carcinoma
Environmental	No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic	Carcinoid syndrome
Genetic	Congenital generalized lipodystrophy, fibrous dysplasia, Gardner's syndrome, Nasu-Hakola disease, osteopoikilosis, Rosai-Dorfman disease
Hematologic	Erdheim-Chester disease, histiocytosis X, langerhans cell histiocytosis, multiple myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, solitary plasmacytoma of bone
Iatrogenic	No underlying causes
Infectious Disease	Bone abscess, eumycetoma, osteomyelitis
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic	Adamantinoma, aneurysmal bone cyst, bone abscess, bone cancer, bone cyst, bone spur, chondroblastoma, desmoplastic fibroma of bone, enchondroma, Erdheim-Chester disease, Ewing's sarcoma, fibrous dysplasia, giant cell tumor of bone, intraosseous lipoma, Nasu-Hakola disease, Osgood-Schlatter disease, osteitis fibrosa cystica, osteoblastoma, osteochondroma, osteochondromyxoma, osteoclastoma, osteofibrous dysplasia, osteoid osteoma, osteoma, osteopoikilosis, osteosarcoma, Paget's disease of bone, parosteal osteosarcoma, periosteal osteosarcoma, primary lymphoma of the bone, primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of bone, simple bone cyst, small cell osteosarcoma, synovial chondromatosis, telangiectatic osteosarcoma, unicameral bone cyst
Neurologic	Benign notochordal cell tumor, Nasu-Hakola disease
Nutritional/Metabolic	No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic	No underlying causes
Oncologic	Benign: Benign notochordal cell tumor, chondroblastoma, chondromesenchymal hamartoma, chondromyxoid fibroma, desmoplastic fibroma of bone, enchondroma, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, epithelioid hemangioma, hemangioma, hemangiopericytoma, histiocytosis X, langerhans cell histiocytosis, nonossifying fibroma, ossifying fibroma, osteitis fibrosa cystica, osteoblastoma, osteochondroma, osteochondromyxoma, osteoid osteoma, osteoma, Paget's disease of bone, periosteal chondroma, Malignant: Adamantinoma, angiosarcoma, bladder cancer, bone cancer, breast cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoid syndrome, chondrosarcoma, chordoma, clear cell chondrosarcoma, dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, Ewing's sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, giant cell tumor of bone, hemangiopericytoma, lymphoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, melanoma, mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, multiple myeloma, osteoclastoma, osteosarcoma, parosteal osteosarcoma, plasma cell myeloma, periosteal osteosarcoma, primary lymphoma of the bone, primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of bone, prostate cancer, small cell osteosarcoma, solitary plasmacytoma of bone, rhabdomyosarcoma, telangiectatic osteosarcoma, thyroid carcinoma, Metastatic: Bladder cancer, bone cancer, breast cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoid syndrome, chondrosarcoma, clear cell chondrosarcoma, dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, giant cell tumor of bone, melanoma, mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, osteoclastoma, osteosarcoma, periosteal osteosarcoma, prostate cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, telangiectatic osteosarcoma, thyroid carcinoma
Ophthalmologic	No underlying causes
Overdose/Toxicity	No underlying causes
Psychiatric	No underlying causes
Pulmonary	Bronchogenic carcinoma, sarcoidosis
Renal/Electrolyte	No underlying causes
Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy	No underlying causes
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma	No underlying causes
Urologic	No underlying causes
Miscellaneous	No underlying causes

• Osteomyelitis
• Giant cell tumors
• Ewing's sarcoma
• Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
• Lymphoma
• Osteoblastoma
• Aneurysmal bone cyst
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Fibrosarcoma
• Cortical desmoid