ArticleThe Iowa orthopaedic journal2012
CT scans for pulmonary surveillance may be overused in lower-grade sarcoma.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cost of Low-Value Imaging Worldwide: A Systematic Review.Applied health economics and health policy · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of Surveillance Imaging in Detecting Local and Metastatic Lung Recurrences Among Patients with Sarcomas of the Extremities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Annals of surgical oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Optimal surveillance for detecting sarcoma lung metastasis - A systematic review.Surgical oncology insight · 2025Article
- Lung Surveillance Strategy for High-Grade Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Chest X-Ray or CT Scan?Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2019Article
- What Is the Clinical Importance of Incidental Findings on Staging CT Scans in Patients With Sarcoma?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2019Article
- Developing an Evidence-based Followup Schedule for Bone Sarcomas Based on Local Recurrence and Metastatic Progression.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2017Article
- Pulmonary Surveillance Strategies Following Sarcoma Excision Vary Among Orthopedic Oncologists: A Survey of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society.The Iowa orthopaedic journal · 2016Article
- Surveillance Strategies for Sarcoma: Results of a Survey of Members of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society.Sarcoma · 2016Article
- Multidisciplinary management of soft tissue sarcoma.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2013Review
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Abstract
Chest CT scans are often used to monitor patients after excision of a sarcoma. Although sensitive, CT scans are more expensive than chest radiographs and are associated with possible health risks from a higher radiation dose. We hypothesized that a program based upon limited CT scans in lower-grade sarcoma could be efficacious and less expensive. We retrospectively assigned patients to a high-risk or low-risk hypothetical protocol. Eighty-three low- or intermediate-grade soft tissue sarcomas met our inclusion criteria. Eight patients had pulmonary metastasis. A protocol based on selective CT scans for high-risk patients would have identified seven out of eight lesions. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for routine CT scans was $731,400. A program based upon selective CT scans for higher-risk patients is accurate, spares unnecessary radiation to many patients, and is less expensive.
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