Description
This updated second edition of a successful book provides essential, internationally applicable information in the area of bone and joint pathology with emphasis on practical diagnostic aspects, including many illustrations: roentgenograms, CT-scans, MRI, scintigraphies, as well as pictures of gross surgical specimens and microphotographs, immunohistochemical reactions and genomics. Information on histopathological and molecular diagnosis, and basic therapeutic guidelines are provided.
This book offers generous coverage of epidemiology, clinical features, radiology, pathology, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, not only for common lesions, but also for those less frequently encountered, including lesions of joints. The content is arranged based on the World Health Organization’s Consensus Classification, with the addition of other lesions not included therein.Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone provides day-to-day assistance togeneral and specialized surgical pathologists, radiologists, orthopedic, head and neck and dental surgeons, oncologists and rheumatologists.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction.- Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Bone Tumors.- Special Clinical Aspects of Certain Bone Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions.- An Imaging Approach to Bone Tumors.- Methods of Bone Biopsy.- Basic and Ancillary Techniques in Bone Pathology.- Grading and Staging.- Basic Guidelines on the Oncologic Treatment of Malignant Tumors of Bone.- Surgical Treatment of Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions of Bone.- Part II Bone-Forming Tumors.- Medullary Osteoma.- Parosteal Osteoma.- Osteoid Osteoma.- Osteoblastoma.- Conventional Central Osteosarcoma.- Parosteal Osteosarcoma.- Periosteal Osteosarcoma.- High-Grade Surface Osteosarcoma.- Part III Cartilage-Forming Tumors.- Enchondroma.- Multiple Enchondromatosis (Ollier’s Disease).- Periosteal Chondroma.- Osteochondroma.- Multiple Osteochondromatosis.- Chondroblastoma.- Chondromyxoid Fibroma.- Chondrosarcoma.- Chondrosarcoma Variants.- Part IV Giant Cell Tumor.- Giant Cell Tumor of Bone.- Part V Round Cell Tumors.- Ewing’s Sarcoma Family of Tumors.- Lymphoma of Bone.- Myeloma.- Part VI Fibrous Tumors.- Desmoplastic Fibroma of Bone.- Fibrosarcoma of Bone.- Part VII Fibrohistiocytic Tumors.- Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone.- Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone.- Part VIII Vascular Tumors.- Hemangioma.- Epithelioid Hemangioma.- Glomus Tumor.- Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma.- Angiosarcoma.- Part IX Adamantinoma.- Adamantinoma.- Part X Notochordal Tumors.- Benign Notochordal Cell Tumor.- Chordoma.- Part XI Leiomyosarcoma.- Leiomyosarcoma of Bone.- Part XII Adipocytic Tumors.- Lipoma of Bone.- Liposarcoma of Bone.- Part XIII Neurogenic Tumors.- Schwannoma of Bone.- Neurofibroma of Bone.- Part XIV Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor.- Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor.- Part XV Metastatic Carcinoma Involving Bone.- Metastatic Bone Carcinoma.
