Posttreatment Imaging of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Tumors

pediatric musculoskeletal imaging guidelines, pediatric musculoskeletal imaging age considerations

Imaging evaluation of musculoskeletal tumors.

In this chapter, we review different imaging modalities, including radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, and nuclear medicine scintigraphy, and their application to musculoskeletal neoplasm. Advantages and limitations of each modality are reviewed, and suggestions for imaging approach are provided.

De Novo Assessment of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Tumors: Beyond Anatomic Imaging.

MRI plays a central role in the assessment of pediatric musculoskeletal soft tissue tumors. Although these neoplasms may initially be evaluated on other modalities, such as sonography, MRI is essential for accurately determining the extent of disease. Traditionally, MRI has been performed with sequences that provide excellent anatomic detail, with T1-weighted, fluid-sensitive, and static postco...

MR Imaging of Bone Marrow in Patients with Musculoskeletal Tumors

Knowledge of the appearances of normal bone marrow, metastases involving marrow, and therapy-related marrow changes shown by MR imaging is necessary in order to avoid misdiagnosis. This article reviews MR imaging techniques and the findings that allow distinction of normal yellow (fatty) marrow and red marrow from tumor in marrow, as well as the identification of marrow changes resulting from r...

Pediatric Brain Tumors: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

The incidence of cancer in the United States in children under 15 years of age has risen in recent years (Ries et al., 1991). This is largely due to the increased incidence of lymphoblastic leukemia and tumors of the brain and nervous system, as opposed to Wilms tumors, soft tissue and bone sarcomas, lymphomas and Hodgkin's disease or other malignancies of childhood. Between 1973 and 1988, the ...