Main description:

This richly illustrated book, in an extensively revised new edition, provides a comprehensive survey of the role of medical imaging studies in the detection, staging, grading, tissue characterization, and post-treatment follow-up of soft tissue tumors. The indications for and relative merits of various imaging modalities are fully described, with particular emphasis on the role of advanced MRI techniques that can improve diagnostic accuracy and evaluation of treatment response. The most recent version of the WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumors is introduced, and individual chapters are devoted to imaging of each of the tumor groups in that classification as well as other soft tissue masses. Numerous new illustrations of both common and rare tumors are included, providing a rich pictorial database of soft tissue masses. In addition, imaging findings are correlated with clinical, epidemiologic, and histologic data. Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors will be of value in daily practice not only for radiologists but also for orthopedic surgeons, oncologists, and pathologists.

Contents:

Part I Diagnostic Modalities

1.Ultrasound

2.Plain Radiography Computed Tomography and Angiography

3.Nuclear Medicine Imaging

4.Magnetic Resonance Imaging: basic concepts

5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: advanced imaging techniques

6.Genetics and Molecular Biology

7.Biopsy of Soft Tissue Tumors

8.Pathology of Soft Tissue Tumors

Part II Staging, Grading and Tissue Specific Diagnosis

9. Staging

10. Grading and Tissue Specific diagnosis

11. Diagnostic Algorithm

Part III Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors

12. WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumors

13. Adipocytic Tumors

14. Fibroblastic/Myofibroblastic Tumors

15. So-called Fibro-histiocytic Tumors

16. Tumors of Smooth and Skeletal muscle and pericytic tumors

17.Vascular Tumors

18.Chondro-osseous Tumors

19. Tumors of uncertain differentiation

Part IV Imaging of other Soft Tissue Masses

20. Synovial lesions

21. Lesions form the peripheral nerves

22. Pseudotumoral Lesions

23. Soft Tissue Metastasis

24. Soft Tissue Lymphoma

Part V Soft Tissue Tumors in Pediatric Patients

Part VI Imaging after treatment