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- * Patients with RMS should be treated at specialized Sarcoma Centres, where experienced radiologists are essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment monitoring.
- * Advanced imaging techniques, particularly hybrid PET/CT and PET/MRI, are becoming important for understanding the tumor's biology and enhancing diagnostic accuracy in adult RMS.
Article Abstract
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) represents more than 50% of paediatric soft tissue tumours. Conversely, it is extremely rare among adults, where it shows peculiar biological and clinical features that are still poorly investigated. RMS patients should be referred to a Sarcoma Centre, where the contribution of experienced radiologists plays a relevant role in the diagnostic assessment of the disease, including precise localisation, staging, image-guided biopsy, response evaluation after treatment and follow-up. Besides CT and MRI, hybrid imaging including positron emission tomography (PET)/CT and PET/MRI are giving an increasing contribution to provide functional insights about tumour biology and to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the imaging work-up. This review paper provides a revision of the pathology, clinical and radiological features of adult RMS, with a particular focus on the growing role of hybrid PET-based imaging.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446015 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200250 | DOI Listing |
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