[MRI diagnosis of soft tissue tumors]

Vestn Rentgenol Radiol. 1999 Nov-Dec:(6):35-8.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

MRI findings of 13 patients with soft tissue tumors (STT) are presented. There are were abnormalities, such as primary STTs of the hip in 5 patients, the back in 1, and the neck in 1, STT relapses of the hip in 2 and those of the back in 1. Two patients had chronic hip STT hematomas and 1 had hip STT metastatic melanoma. The diagnosis was verified in 11 cases (in 10 cases at surgery and 1 at needle biopsy). MRI makes it possible to define the accurate sizes of the tumor, its structure and relationship to its adjacent tissues, which is important in choosing at treatment policy, the type and scope of a surgical interventions.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Back
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Hip
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male
  • Melanoma / diagnosis
  • Melanoma / secondary
  • Middle Aged
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / surgery