Computerized tomography in the diagnosis of soft tissue neoplasms of the extremities and trunk
Luk'ianchenko, A.B.
Vestnik Rentgenologii i Radiologii 2: 70-75
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4676 PMID: 1877167 Document Number: 374195
Analysis of CT data on 213 patients with soft tissue and trunk tumors has shown that a majority of malignant and benign tumors have a similar picture (except lipoma). Features of the contours of a tumor and its inner structure do not permit the assessment of its nature. The only significant differential-diagnostic sign of malignant soft tissue tumors is destruction of an adjacent bone, noted in 17.6%. The majority of malignant and benign soft tissue tumors (70.9%) on CT scans look like a single node; recurrent tumors look multinodular (78.2%). Verification of soft tissue tumors, revealed by CT, should be done using morphological methods.