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How can a soft tissue sarcoma appear on a regular xray?
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If often: Doesn't. Regular xrays are insufficient for the diagnosis of sarcomas. Mri with contrast is the best noninvasive test for this.
Answered 4/13/2013
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Depends: Most of the time a soft tissue sarcoma is not seen on X-ray except for an occasional soft tissue shadow. Synovial sarcoma sometimes has calcifications. A normal X-ray does not rule out a sarcoma and an MRI with and without contrast is the imaging study of choice. But eventually the biopsy, not the MRI, is what establishes the diagnosis.
Answered 12/18/2014
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