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Pseudotumoral Lesions

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Tumorlike soft tissue lesions are a common clinical problem Although it is possible to estimate the incidence of true soft tissue tumors, it is more difficult to estimate the incidence of pseudotumors, for several reasons Many patients do not seek medical advice for benign lesions (e g., hematoma) or for normal anatomical variants (e g., accessory soleus muscle). Moreover, many radiologists are not familiar with the spectrum of nontumoral masses.

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Salgado, R., Alexiou, J., Engelholm, JL. (2001). Pseudotumoral Lesions. In: De Schepper, A.M., Parizel, P.M., De Beuckeleer, L., Vanhoenacker, F. (eds) Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07856-3_21

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