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Musculoskeletal Tumors Following Treatment: Imaging Pitfalls

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Malignant bone and soft tissue tumors require aggressive treatment, which is often a combination of surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Even treatment of benign tumors such as aggressive fibromatosis can give rise to extensive posttreatment alterations of the surrounding tissues. In both malignant and benign tumors, local recurrence is common and regular follow-up imaging is required. Interpretation of posttreatment images may, however, be complicated by changes in the affected area. This chapter reviews the imaging pitfalls due to posttreatment changes and how to distinguish these from recurrent tumor. It also provides recommendations for posttreatment imaging.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, Belgium

    Wouter C. J. Huysse MD, Lennart B. Jans MD, PhD & Filip M. Vanhoenacker MD, PhD

  2. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat, 10, B-2650, Edegem, Belgium

    Filip M. Vanhoenacker MD, PhD

  3. General Hospital Sint-Maarten Duffel-Mechelen, Rooienberg 25, B-2570, Duffel, Belgium

    Filip M. Vanhoenacker MD, PhD

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Huysse, W.C.J., Jans, L.B., Vanhoenacker, F.M. (2017). Musculoskeletal Tumors Following Treatment: Imaging Pitfalls. In: Peh, W. (eds) Pitfalls in Musculoskeletal Radiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53496-1_32

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