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Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas are relatively rare conditions since they represent about 1% of all cancers. Unfortunately, the mortality rate is very high since the 5-year survival rate is about 50%; however prognosis is strongly correlated with the histopathological tumor grade. Treatments include surgery, neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. The diagnostic flowchart includes planar X-rays, bone scan, CT, and MRI. MRI should be considered the imaging of choice due to the high soft-tissue contrast and the high accuracy in the detection of soft tissue and bone involvement [1]. It is possible that in the next future this could be one of the principal applications of the hybrid PET/MRI tomography.
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Fanti, S., Farsad, M., Mansi, L., Castellucci, P. (2018). Malignancy in Orthopedics. In: Atlas of PET-CT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57742-4_12
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