"Do-not-touch" lesions of bone revisited.
Clin Radiol
; 77(3): 179-187, 2022 03.
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| ID: mdl-34953569
ABSTRACT
Incidental bone lesions are encountered frequently in day-to-day practice. Many of these lesions are indeterminate requiring referral to specialist centres for further characterisation with or without biopsy; however, as biopsy has its own drawbacks, not all lesions can be subjected to biopsy. The primary role of a radiologist in these situations is to characterise these lesions based on their imaging appearances into aggressive lesions requiring biopsy and non-aggressive lesions that do not require a biopsy. The term "do-not-touch lesion" is used to describe a lesion with typical radiographic appearances that can be characterised based on radiographic appearances alone without needing a biopsy. With recent advances in imaging, many incidental lesions can be characterised into do-not-touch lesions based on their imaging appearances alone using a single imaging technique or using a combination of imaging techniques and, less frequently, with the additional help of serological investigations, without the need for biopsy. Hence, the definition of do-not-touch lesions of bone needs a revisit. In this article, we attempt to redefine do-not-touch lesions of bone and propose an imaging-based classification for characterisation of these lesions.
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Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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2022
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Article