Evaluation of magnification radiography in bone tumors

✍ Scribed by M. Langlotz; M. Cserhati

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 315 KB
• Volume: 97
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-3916
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00450932

✦ Synopsis

The additional information obtained by direct radiographic magnification is examined in comparison to standard exposures of 50 bone tumors A diagnostically significant increase in information is obtained in 84 % of these cases This is distributed at an irregular rate over the various decisive phases of the tumor diagnosis In 24 % of the cases the magnification exposure was helpful excluding other diseases, in 40 % it permitted a differentiation between benign and malignant lesions and in 20 % it permitted a classification of the type The clinical importance of the magnification technique is relevant.

Although theoretic and technical problems of the direct radiographic magnification technique have already been solved l 1-5, 10 l, the clinical evaluation of this method is still in the beginning l 6, 9 l An attempt shall therefore be made to justify the performance of the magnification technique in the diagnosis of skeletal bone tumors.