Diagnostic Imaging in Bone and Soft-Tissue Sarcomas: Practice, Education and Innovation

Dear Colleagues,

Musculoskeletal sarcomas are rare tumors accounting for only 1% of all adult malignancies. Soft-tissue sarcomas account for about 80% of them, while bone sarcomas for the remaining 20%. 

Imaging has a key role at each phase of care: diagnosis, image-guided biopsy, baseline assessment (surgical planning and prognosis prediction), treatment response evaluation, and follow-up controls (including recurrence assessment).

Several years ago, radiological studies were mainly used to detect the dimensions and location of lesions. Nowadays, numerous imaging features are extracted (qualitatively or quantitatively) with different clinical aims, with the goal of a more personalized care.

In this Special Issue, we will provide high-quality articles on musculoskeletal oncology with educational aims helping in everyday clinical practice, as well as research on the latest imaging trends.

Dr. Paolo Spinnato
Guest Editor

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• magnetic resonance imaging
• computed tomography
• osteosarcoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• soft-tissue sarcomas
• conventional radiography