A Multidisciplinary Team Approach Is Highly Effective in the Management of Nondiagnostic Bone Tumour Biopsies: A 10-Year Retrospective Review at a Specialist Sarcoma Unit

Figure 1

Results table: descriptive statistics including diagnostic rates and frequencies of biopsies grouped by tumour type, biopsy type, and tumours site for successive biopsies. The results of ordinal and multinomial logistic regression are shown on the right-hand columns. values for groups represent the “main effect” of that group, and individual factors are represented with odds ratios, confidence intervals, and p values in relation to the reference category (). Pearson’s chi-square for “goodness of fit” was 80.0 () and 84.7 () for the multinomial regression and ordinal regression models, respectively. DSR = diagnostic success rate of the MDT, mPBT = malignant primary bone tumour, mSBT = malignant secondary bone tumour, and pCNB = percutaneous core needle biopsy.