Synovial sarcoma: Imaging features of common and uncommon primary sites, metastatic patterns, and treatment response

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bakri, Amit ^a,b   Shinagare, Atul B ^a   Krajewski, Katherine M ^a   Howard, Stephanie A ^a   Jagannathan, Jyothi P ^a   Hornick, Jason L ^b   Ramaiya, Nikhil H ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; PET CT; Synovial sarcoma

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; IFOSFAMIDE;

CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL;

EID: 84864773145     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.8039     Document Type: Review

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