title: Biopsy techniques for soft tissue and bowel sarcomas.
abstract: There is overlap in the clinical presentation of benign soft tissue tumors and soft tissue sarcomas. A preoperative sarcoma diagnosis would allow for consideration for neoadjuvant therapy, including preoperative radiation, as well as optimal surgical treatment planning, and patient counseling. Image guided core needle biopsy is a low morbidity, cost-effective, highly accurate approach for obtaining a definitive pathologic diagnosis. Any biopsy approach should minimize the potential for tumor seeding of otherwise uninvolved anatomic structures.
authors: Surgical Oncology Fellow, Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Tuttle
authors: John M
authors: JM
authors: Kane
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D062005:Biopsy, Large-Core Needle / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: core needle biopsy; fine-needle aspiration; sarcoma