Abstract
Posttreatment imaging is important to ensure early detection of oncological complications, and appropriate timing and frequency is an important consideration, especially in high-risk patients. Focused magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the preferred modality for detection of local recurrence of soft tissue tumors and is also used in high-risk osteosarcoma. Although posttreatment changes can mimic or obscure local recurrence on MR imaging, a systematic approach and knowledge of the features of recurrence versus therapeutic change allows differentiation in almost all cases. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography is also emerging as an important problem-solving tool in local recurrence and in metastatic surveillance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1307-1323 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Radiologic Clinics of North America |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2011 |
Keywords
- Imaging
- Musculoskeletal
- Posttherapy
- Sarcoma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging