Background: Tumors of the developmental age are an important problem in clinical practice. Primary bone tumors constitute 1-1.5% of all tumors, and 7% of all tumors diagnosed in the developmental age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: to assess the value of different images of periosteal reaction on computed tomography (CT) in children with malignant bone tumours in determining the effectiveness of the chemotherapy. To evaluate the prognostic value of particular symptoms of the periosteal reaction.
Material And Methods: material includes documentation of CT imaging of periosteum in children with malignant bone tumours.
Diagnostic imaging has determined clinical application depending on kind of pathology and anatomical localisation. This is a precise and fine instrument for monitoring effects of treatment in childhood malignant tumours. Authors demonstrate examples of cases in which diagnostic imaging was the only method which revealed a relapse in situ, progression during chemotherapy or clinically unsuspected dissemination of tumours after many years.
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