title: [A critical study of arteriography of tumours of soft tissue of the extremities (author's transl)].
abstract: We feel that arteriography occupies at the present time an indispensable and irreplaceable role in the pre-therapeutic assessment of a soft tissue tumour of the extremities. It obviously cannot provide a definite diagnosis in all cases with regard to the benign or malignant nature of the lesion. However careful analysis of the various features of the images obtained, leading to a radiological classification of the tumour into one of three groups (LEVIN, WATSON and BALTAXE), makes possible, in groups I and III, to predict the nature with a high probability of accuracy. Only in type II (35% of our cases) is it impossible to make such a deduction. The value of arteriography is not limited to diagnosis. It also provides information on the extent and arterial supply of the tumour which are essential to the surgeon and which cannot be supplied by any other investigation.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009221:Myositis Ossificans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013848:Thigh
vernacular_title: Etude critique de l'artériographie des tumeurs des parties molles des extrémités