title: The role of plain radiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging in sarcoma evaluation.
abstract: Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and post-treatment monitoring of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas. Plain radiography should be the initial imaging undertaken for patients who present with pain or a mass that may represent a musculoskeletal tumor. This is especially true of bony lesions, in which plain radiography remains the most specific noninvasive means of determining the aggressiveness of a lesion and establishing a working differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiologic Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Massengill
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Seeger
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Eckardt
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media