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Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2024



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Mediterr J Rheumatol 2023;34(4):531-6
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Soft Tissue Sarcomas Mimicking Benign Inflammatory Processes: A Diagnostic Dilemma
Cleofina Furtado1, Rania Zeitoun2, Jonathan Wilkes3, Vaiyapuri Sumathi3, George Tony1
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1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospitals of North

Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

2Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

3Department of Musculoskeletal Pathology, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Robert Aitken Institute for Clinical Research (Level 3), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

C Furtado

Keywords: synovial chondrosarcoma, malignant transformation, synovial sarcoma, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography
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