ABSTRACT
MRI findings of 13 patients with soft tissue tumors (STT) are presented. There are were abnormalities, such as primary STTs of the hip in 5 patients, the back in 1, and the neck in 1, STT relapses of the hip in 2 and those of the back in 1. Two patients had chronic hip STT hematomas and 1 had hip STT metastatic melanoma. The diagnosis was verified in 11 cases (in 10 cases at surgery and 1 at needle biopsy). MRI makes it possible to define the accurate sizes of the tumor, its structure and relationship to its adjacent tissues, which is important in choosing at treatment policy, the type and scope of a surgical interventions.
Subject(s)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Soft Tissue Neoplasms/diagnosis , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Back , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Head and Neck Neoplasms/diagnosis , Hip , Humans , Male , Melanoma/diagnosis , Melanoma/secondary , Middle Aged , Soft Tissue Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
Exploratory and therapeutical punctures were made in 454 patients under the control of ultrasound, CT, and X-ray teleimage. Diagnostic biopsies established the cytological and histological nature of diseases in 67.6% of cases, positive ultrasound-, CT-, and X-ray teleimage-controlled biopsies being 76.3, 64.9, and 71.4%, respectively. Beneficial effects of therapeutical interventions were obtained in 89.5% of patients.
