title: Imaging guidelines for children with Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group Bone Tumor Committee.
abstract: The Children's Oncology Group (COG) is a multi-institutional cooperative group dedicated to childhood cancer research that has helped to increase the survival of children with cancer through clinical trials. These clinical trials include a standardized regimen of imaging examinations performed prior to, during, and following therapy. This article presents imaging guidelines developed by a multidisciplinary group from the COG Bone Tumor Committee. These guidelines provide both required and recommended studies. Recommended examinations may become required in the future. These guidelines should be considered a work in progress that will evolve with advances in imaging and childhood cancer research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. meyer@email.chop.edu
authors.forename: James S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Helen R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Nadel
authors.forename: Neyssa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marina
authors.forename: Richard B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Womer
authors.forename: Kenneth L B
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Eary
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gorlick
authors.forename: Holcombe E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Grier
authors.forename: R Lor
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Randall
authors.forename: Elizabeth R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Lawlor
authors.forename: Stephen L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Lessnick
authors.forename: Paula J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Schomberg
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Kailo
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002648:Child; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18