| Summary: | A descriptive cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study was conducted at "Arnaldo Milian Castro" University Provincial Hospital of Villa Clara Province, in the period between February 2009 and May 2011 in order to determine the sonographic behavior in soft tissue tumors of osteomioarticular system in relation to its histology, its vascularization and some epidemiological variables. Patients who attended at Consultation of ecosoma of this center with the presumptive diagnosis of a tumor of soft parts of osteomioarticular system, the sample was composed of those who, after performed the sonographic study, requiring confirmation and diagnosis histological by needle biopsy; and epidemiological data from the physical examination and the ultrasound examination findings were collected and the histological diagnosis was confirmed by statistical records of the Department of Pathology of the hospital. The correlation between ultrasound findings, physical exam, vascularization, some epidemiological variables and the final histologic diagnosis was established. Purposeful sampling with inclusion and exclusion criteria given by experts and the researcher was made. After performing the statistical analysis of the results it was reached to conclusions and recommendations.
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