title: Preoperative staging techniques for soft-tissue neoplasms.
abstract: Preoperative staging studies need not be limited to one of the techniques discussed since each has its own specific advantages and disadvantages in the overall evaluation of soft-tissue neoplasms. Among orthopaedic oncologists, however, it is apparent that MRI is becoming the preoperative staging study of choice. It is by the careful, judicial use of one or all of these techniques that optimal diagnostic information is obtained and the patient given the best treatment alternatives.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Makley
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed