Soft tissue tumor imaging in adults: whole-body staging in sarcoma, non-malignant entities requiring special algorithms, pitfalls and special imaging aspects. Guidelines 2024 from the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR).
Iris-Melanie Noebauer-HuhmannFilip M VanhoenackerJoan C VilanovaAlberto S TagliaficoMarc-André WeberRadhesh K LalamThomas GrieserVioleta Vasilevska NikodinovskaJacky W J de RooyOlympia PapakonstantinouCatherine MccarthyLuca Maria SconfienzaKoenraad VerstraeteJosé Martel-VillagránPavol SzomolanyiFrédéric E LecouvetDiana AfonsoOmar M AlbtoushGiacomo AringhieriRemide ArkunGunnar AströmAlberto BazzocchiRajesh BotchuMartin BreitenseherSnehansh ChaudharyDanoob DaliliMark DaviesMilko C de JongeBerna D MeteJan FritzJan L M A GielenGeoff HideAmanda IsaacSlavcho IvanoskiRamy M MansourLorenzo Muntaner-GimbernatAna NavasPaul O DonnellŞebnem ÖrgüçWinston J RennieSantiago ResanoPhilip RobinsonHatice T SanalSimone A J Ter HorstKirsten van LangeveldeKlaus WörtlerMarita KoelzJoannis PanotopoulosReinhard WindhagerJohan L BloemPublished in: European radiology (2024)
An early, accurate, diagnosis is crucial for the prognosis of patients with soft tissue tumors. These updated guidelines provide best practice expert consensus for standardized imaging algorithms, techniques, and reporting. Standardization can improve the comparability examinations and provide databases for large data analysis.