**Meet the editor**

Professor Fethi Derbel was born in 1960, in Tunisia. He received his medical degree from the Sousse Faculty of Medicine at Sousse, Tunisia. He completed his surgical residency in General Surgery at University Hospital Farhat Hached of Sousse and was a member of Unit of Liver Transplantaion in the University of Rennes, France. He is presently working in the department of surgery in

Sahloul Hospital, Sousse. His hospital activities are mostly concerned with laparoscopic, colorectal,pancreatic, hepato-biliary and gastric surgery. He is a professor at the school of Medicine in Djibouti, past member of the medical committee in the University Hospital Sahloul, Sousse,Member of the National College of Surgeons in Tunisia. He has published many articles in journals and collaborates intensively with InTech Open Access Publisher as an editor.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Fundamental Aspects of Soft Tissue Tumors 1** 

**in Rhabdomyosarcoma:** *In Vitro* **Assessment** 

Matthew J. Plantinga and Dominique Broccoli

**Part 2 Diagnosis and Investigations in Soft Tissue Tumors 51** 

Jaber Juntu, Arthur M. De Schepper, Pieter Van Dyck, Dirk Van Dyck, Jan Gielen, Paul M. Parizel and Jan Sijbers

**Molecular Imaging with Clinical Practice 69** 

Jun Nishida, Shigeru Ehara and Tadashi Shimamura

Ezequiel Trejo-Scorza, Belinda Beatriz Márquez Álvarez, Carlos José Trejo-Scorza and Simón Paz-Ivannov

Rogelio Gonzalez – Gonzalez, Ronell Bologna – Molina, Omar Tremillo – Maldonado, Ramon Gil Carreon – Burciaga

Steven J. Wolf, Laurence P.G. Wakelin and Daniel R. Catchpoole

Chapter 1 **Considerations for Treatment Development** 

**of Novel DNA Binding Drugs 3** 

Chapter 2 **Telomere Maintenance Mechanisms in Soft Tissue Sarcomas 31** 

Chapter 3 **Classification of Soft Tissue Tumors by** 

**Machine Learning Algorithms 53** 

Chapter 4 **Medical Theory on Orthopedics Combining** 

Chapter 5 **Imaging Findings of Adipocytic Tumors 91** 

**Part 3 Types of Soft Tissue Tumors 101** 

Chapter 7 **Head and Neck Soft Tissue Sarcoma 117** 

and Marcelo Gomez Palacio - Gastelúm

Chapter 6 **Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors 103** 

Jing jing Peng

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**


#### **Part 2 Diagnosis and Investigations in Soft Tissue Tumors 51**

	- **Part 3 Types of Soft Tissue Tumors 101**

#### **Part 4 Treatment of Soft Tissue Tumors 207**


#### **Part 5 Prognosis of Soft Tissue Tumors 253**

