MULTIPARAMETRIC ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTICS OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS

It is important to suggest that the problem of early diagnostics of tumors of the musculoskeletal system is still far from being solved. Traditional examination methods, including a complex of various modifications of X-ray examinations, are associated with high radiation loads, are expensive and are limited in their repeated use in terms of both diagnostics or evaluation of treatment results, and subsequent dynamic observation for the purpose of early detection of relapse of the disease. At the same time, already in the first reports on ultrasound examination (US) of soft tissues, it was noted that tomograms reveal details that are not determined by radiography. Further studies have shown that the echography method allows to determine the nature of the pathological process with high differential diagnostic accuracy, and the capabilities of ultrasound in detecting soft tissue tumors (STT) are not only not inferior, but in some cases even surpass the sensitivity of the X-ray method, including CT [1,3,4]. Doppler techniques open up completely new prospects in ultrasound diagnostics of volumetric soft tissue formations [5,6]. Definitely, the desire to systematize information on the capabilities of complex ultrasound tomography in the diagnosis of soft tissue neoplasms, as well as to determine the informativeness of the method in assessing the effectiveness of treatment and early diagnosis of relapses served as the reason for this publication.