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Imaging of Bone Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions pp 563–586Cite as

Scapula

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Key Points

• Bone tumors are less common within the scapula.

• Characteristic imaging features may be present or absent.

• Being a flat bone with complex anatomy, diagnosis and staging of tumors may be more difficult compared with long bones.

• A combination of imaging modalities is best to characterize, stage, and preoperatively image these lesions.

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  1. Medical Imaging School of Medicine Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia, 160 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, 2010, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Suzanne E. Anderson-Sembach

  2. Department of Radiology, St. Johannes Hospital, Katholisches Klinikum Duisburg, An der Abtei 7–11, 47166, Duisburg, Germany

    Rainer Erlemann

  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery St. Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, 41 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, 3065, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Peter Choong

  4. Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Service, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St. Andrew’s Place, 3002, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Peter Choong

  5. Bone Tumor Reference Center at the University Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Schoenbeinstrasse 40, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Gernot Jundt

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Anderson-Sembach, S., Erlemann, R., Choong, P., Jundt, G. (2009). Scapula. In: Davies, A., Sundaram, M., James, S. (eds) Imaging of Bone Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77984-1_32

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