Imaging of pediatric extremity soft tissue tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Paper

Michael Richard Acord; Erika Pace; Alexander El-Ali; Apeksha Chaturvedi; Ramesh S Iyer; Oscar M Navarro; Neeta Pandit-Taskar; Ashishkumar K Parikh; Ann Schechter; Raja Shaikh; M Beth McCarville

doi:10.1002/pbc.29944

Imaging of pediatric extremity soft tissue tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Paper

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Jun;70 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):e29944. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29944. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Cancer Research UK Cancer Imaging Centre, Division of Radiation Therapy and Imaging, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
³ Division of Pediatric Radiology, Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Imaging Science, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁶ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service, Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Interventional Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 36070194
PMCID: PMC10641877 (available on 2024-06-01)
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29944

Abstract

Pediatric soft tissue tumors of the extremity include rhabdomyosarcoma and nonrhabdomyosarcoma neoplasms. This manuscript provides consensus-based imaging recommendations for imaging evaluation at diagnosis, during treatment, and following completion of therapy for patients with a soft tissue tumor of the extremity.

Keywords: Children's Oncology Group; imaging; sarcoma.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Child
Diagnostic Imaging
Extremities / pathology
Humans
Rhabdomyosarcoma* / diagnostic imaging
Rhabdomyosarcoma* / therapy
Soft Tissue Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Soft Tissue Neoplasms* / pathology
Surface Plasmon Resonance

Grants and funding

U10 CA180886/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States