title: Post-therapeutic magnetic resonance imaging of bone tumors.
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in the therapeutic follow-up of patients with bone tumors. Follow-up includes monitoring of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to limb salvage surgery, assessment of local recurrence of tumor, differentiation of suspected recurrence from hematopoietic bone marrow reconversion, inflammation, seroma, or reactive tissue, and detection of therapeutic complications, such as osteonecrosis, infection, and radiation-induced sarcoma. This article reviews the role of magnetic resonance imaging in the therapeutic follow-up of patients with bone tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Gent, Belgium. koenraad.verstraete@rug.ac.be
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Verstraete
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005122:Exudates and Transudates; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis; D010000:Osteitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D011182:Postoperative Care; D016879:Salvage Therapy; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis