REVIEW   

Il Giornale Italiano di Radiologia Medica 2019 Luglio-Agosto;6(4):372-83

DOI: 10.23736/S2283-8376.19.00187-6

Copyright © 2019 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English, Italian

Imaging of bone tumors of the spine: radiologic-pathologic correlation

Alessandra COPPOLA ¹, Domenico ALBANO ² ✉, Carmelo MESSINA ^{3, 4}, Andrea BIACCA ³, Luigi PEDONE ³, Santi RAPISARDA ³, Angelo CORAZZA ³, Angelo GAMBINO ³, Joan ALMOLLA ³, Anna C. BUZZONI ³, Vito CHIANCA ³, Salvatore GITTO ¹, Grazia POZZI ³, Luca M. SCONFIENZA ^{3, 4}

¹ Postgraduate School in Radiodiagnostics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; ² Section of Radiological Sciences, Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; ³ IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy; ⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Imaging plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of spine bone tumors, since imaging features allow to understand the aggressiveness of the lesions and sometimes to characterize them. Several imaging modalities with helpful tools for differential diagnosis and planning treatment are available. This review describes the imaging features of the main benign and malignant spine tumors and correlate radiological semeiotic findings with histological features.

KEY WORDS: Bone neoplasms; Spine; Histology; Tomography, X-ray computed; Magnetic resonance imaging