Biopsy of Soft Tissue Tumors
Fig. 7.1 Cross section of the mid-upper arm shows contents of anterior and posterior compartments (Reprinted from Anderson et al. [3] with permission) Fig. 7.2 Cross section of the mid-forearm…
Soft Tissue Lymphoma
Fig. 22.1 (a–d) B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a 55-year-old man: (a) axial spin-echo T1-weighted MR image; (b) axial spin-echo T1-weighted MR image with fat suppression; (c) axial spin-echo T1-weighted MR…
Soft Tissue Metastases
Fig. 24.1 Intramuscular metastases. (a) Gray-scale and (b) color Doppler 12–5 MHz US images in patient with previously diagnosed malignancy (lung adenocarcinoma): well-defined lobulated shape hypoechoic nodules located within the…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Basic Concepts
Fig. 4.1 (a–c) Myxoid liposarcoma in the distal thigh. (a) Axial STIR sequence. A sharply margined mass lesion with homogeneous high signal intensity is interposed between the vastus lateralis muscle…
PET and PET-CT in Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Fig. 3.1 18F-FDG PET is predictive of the outcome: patients with a highly metabolic active primary tumor show a significantly shorter overall survival. A 39-year-old patient with a high-grade malignant…
Diagnostic Algorithm of Soft Tissue Tumors
Fig. 10.1 Diagnostic algorithm for initial imaging diagnosis of a STT It must be emphasized – however – that this summary is by no way exhaustive or exclusive. The diversity…
Normal Tissue Doses Through Advanced Technology
Fig. 1 Target volume concept according to ICRU 62: gross tumor volume (GTV); clinical target volume (CTV); internal target volume (ITV); planning target volume (PTV) Table 1 Uncertainties in radiotherapy…
Metastases
Reference Number of patients RPA class I RPA class II RPA class III Gaspar et al. (1997) 1,200 7.1 4.2 2.3 Lutterbach et al. (2002) 916 8.2 4.9 1.8 (IIIA…
and Lymphoma
Fig. 1 A 36-year-old female presented with early-stage, unfavorable Hodgkin lymphoma and was treated with combined modality therapy consisting of six cycles of ABVD followed by low-dose (20 Gy) consolidation…
Beam Reirradiation
Fig. 1 A 40-year-old male was treated for a radiation-induced atypical clival meningioma. He had a history of a pediatric posterior fossa tumor, reported as a glioblastoma, and had received…
