A model of using magnetic resonance imaging in osteoarticular tumor lesion in case of giant cell tumors
Sherman, L.A.
Vestnik Rentgenologii i Radiologii 6: 26-38
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4676 PMID: 15804137 Document Number: 575160
Fifty-eight patients with giant cell tumors (GCT) underwent a comprehensive radiation diagnosis involving X-ray study and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The obtained MR images indicated the high efficiency of this combination of radiation diagnostic techniques in solving the problems in the visualization of osteoarticular tumor lesions. GCT is characterized by well-known primary X-ray semiotics; MR images are also rather pathognomonic of these tumors and they illustrate the process of morphogenesis of these masses. MRI made it possible to solve the specific problems facing a physician (a radiation diagnostician), to determine the site, shape, sizes, volume, and local extent of a tumor, which permitted the planning of surgical treatment policy; to assess its results, to reveal possible inflammatory complications; and to visualize a local recurrence and on-going growth of a tumor, including the signs of GCT malignancy.