Imaging guidelines for children with Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group Bone Tumor Committee.
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.
Meyer
James S
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Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. meyer@email.chop.edu
Nadel
Helen R
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Marina
Neyssa
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Womer
Richard B
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Brown
Kenneth L B
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Eary
J F
JF
Gorlick
Richard
R
Grier
Holcombe E
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Randall
R Lor
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Lawlor
Elizabeth R
ER
Lessnick
Stephen L
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Schomberg
Paula J
PJ
Kailo
Mark D
MD
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
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18