Imaging features of primary and secondary adult rhabdomyosarcoma

Sachin S. Saboo; Katherine M. Krajewski; Katherine Zukotynski; Stephanie Howard; Jyothi P. Jagannathan; Jason L. Hornick; Nikhil Ramaiya

doi:10.2214/AJR.11.8213

Imaging features of primary and secondary adult rhabdomyosarcoma

Sachin S. Saboo, Katherine M. Krajewski, Katherine Zukotynski, Stephanie Howard, Jyothi P. Jagannathan, Jason L. Hornick, Nikhil Ramaiya

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE. Rhabdomyosarcomas are rare and aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas in adults. The purpose of this article is to describe the imaging features of primary and secondary adult rhabdomyosarcomas utilizing MRI, CT, and ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT. CONCLUSION. MRI is the imaging technique of choice for the evaluation of primary rhabdomyosarcoma involving most body sites (extremity, pelvis, head, and neck), with the added advantages of diffusion-weighted imaging and whole-body MRI for staging. CT and FDG PET/ CT play major roles in the evaluation of metastatic disease. Because the imaging features of adult rhabdomyosarcoma are nonspecific, other parameters, such as clinical findings, age, site, lymphadenopathy, and metastatic disease, should be combined to narrow the differential diagnosis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	W694-W703
Journal	American Journal of Roentgenology
Volume	199
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.11.8213
State	Published - Dec 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adult
CT
FDG PET/CT
MRI
Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Imaging features of primary and secondary adult rhabdomyosarcoma

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