Symposium: Selected Papers Presented at the 2008 Meeting of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society
The Classic
The Classic: Registry of Bone Sarcoma: Part I.—Twenty-Five Criteria for Establishing the Diagnosis of Osteogenic Sarcoma.
Part II.—Thirteen Registered Cases of “Five Year Cures” Analyzed According to These Criteria
Ernest Amory Codman1 
Received: 20 July 2009 Accepted: 3 August 2009 Published online: 19 August 2009
Abstract This Classic Article is a reprint of the original work by Ernest Amory Codman, Registry of Bone Sarcoma: Part I.—Twenty-Five
Criteria for Establishing the Diagnosis of Osteogenic Sarcoma. Part II.—Thirteen Registered Cases of “Five Year Cures” Analyzed
According to These Criteria. An accompanying biographical sketch of Ernest Amory Codman, MD, and The Classic: The Registry
of Bone Sarcomas as an Example of the End-Result Idea in Hospital Organization are available at DOIs
10.1007/s11999-009-1047-8 and
10.1007/s11999-009-1048-7, respectively. The Classic Article is ©1926 by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and is reprinted with permission
from Codman EA. Registry of bone sarcoma; part I, twenty-five criteria for establishing diagnosis of osteogenic sarcoma; part
II, 13 registered cases of 5 year cures analyzed according to these criteria.
Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1926;42:381–393.
Richard A. Brand MD (✉) Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA e-mail:
dick.brand@clinorthop.org