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Focus on the tumor periphery in MRI evaluation of soft tissue sarcoma: infiltrative growth signifies poor prognosis

Fernebro, Josefin LU ; Wiklund, Marie ; Jonsson, Kjell LU ; Rydholm, Anders LU ; Nilbert, Mef LU ; Bendahl, Pär-Ola LU and Engellau, Jacob LU (2006) In Sarcoma 2006. p.21251-21251
Abstract
Purpose. Infiltrative microscopical peripheral growth of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) has been shown to be of prognostic importance and preoperative risk stratification could individualize neoadjuvant treatment. Patients and methods. We assessed peripheral tumour growth pattern on preoperative MRI from 78 STS. The findings were correlated to histopathology and to outcome. Results. The MRI-based peripheral tumour growth pattern was classified as pushing in 34 tumours, focally infiltrative in 25, and diffusely infiltrative in 19. All tumours with diffuse infiltration on MRI also showed microscopical infiltration, whereas MRI failed to identify infiltration in two-thirds of the microscopically infiltrative tumours. Diffusely infiltrative growth... (More)
Purpose. Infiltrative microscopical peripheral growth of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) has been shown to be of prognostic importance and preoperative risk stratification could individualize neoadjuvant treatment. Patients and methods. We assessed peripheral tumour growth pattern on preoperative MRI from 78 STS. The findings were correlated to histopathology and to outcome. Results. The MRI-based peripheral tumour growth pattern was classified as pushing in 34 tumours, focally infiltrative in 25, and diffusely infiltrative in 19. All tumours with diffuse infiltration on MRI also showed microscopical infiltration, whereas MRI failed to identify infiltration in two-thirds of the microscopically infiltrative tumours. Diffusely infiltrative growth on MRI gave a 2.5 times increased risk of metastases (P = .01) and a 3.7 times higher risk of local recurrence (P = .02). Discussion. Based on this observation we suggest that MRI evaluation of STS should focus on the peripheral tumour growth pattern since it adds prognostic information of value for decisions on neoadjuvant therapies. (Less)
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  author       = {{Fernebro, Josefin and Wiklund, Marie and Jonsson, Kjell and Rydholm, Anders and Nilbert, Mef and Bendahl, Pär-Ola and Engellau, Jacob}},
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  title        = {{Focus on the tumor periphery in MRI evaluation of soft tissue sarcoma: infiltrative growth signifies poor prognosis}},
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