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A systematic and an organized approach, based on clinical factors and radiographic features, is the current role of conventional radiology in the detection of bone tumors. The most important clinical aspect is patient’s age. The specific radiographic appearances that enable both differential shortening and more accurate tumor characterization are tumor location, lesion margins and zone of transition, periosteal reaction, radiographic opacity and patterns of mineralization, and size and number of lesions.
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Yarmenitis, S.D. (2014). Conventional Radiology of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. In: Gouliamos, A., Andreou, J., Kosmidis, P. (eds) Imaging in Clinical Oncology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5385-4_9
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