Featuring over 1,700 illustrations—including full-color photomicrographs, drawings, and radiographs—this Second Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to diagnosing musculoskeletal disorders. The book details the pathologic and radiologic characteristics of all bone and joint diseases, including arthritis, metastatic bone disease, osteoporosis, trauma, osteomyelitis, developmental bone disorders, and tumor-like lesions. A section on soft-tissue pathology discusses meniscal injuries, bursa, ligaments, and tendons. Although primarily a diagnostic aid, the text includes therapeutic suggestions. A glossary defines specific orthopaedic disorders.

This edition has new chapters on fracture callus; the growth plate and dwarfs; tissue/bone banking—bone grafts; and giant cell tumors and differential diagnosis of giant cell lesions. New appendices cover bone biopsy and fine needle aspiration and immunohistochemistry.

A companion Website will include a full-color image bank and an interactive quiz bank.

Basic Science of Bone

Skeletal and Extraskeletal Calcification and Ossification Syndromes

Metabolic Bone Disease: Part I

Metabolic Bone Disease: Part II

Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis

Bone Cysts and Giant-cell Tumor

Periosteum

Fibrous Lesions

Bone Tumors

Cartilage Tumors

Vascular and Other Mesenchymal Tumors and Lesions

Bone Manifestations of Hematologic Disorders and Small-cell Tumors

Metastatic Bone Disease

Osteonecrosis

Synovium

Arthritis

Implant Pathology

Soft-tissue Pathology

Appendix I: Electron Microscopy

Appendix II: Flow Cytometry

Appendix III: Immunohistochemistry or Immunoperoxidase Staining

Appendix IV: Characteristic Genetic Abnormalities

Appendix V: Classification of Osteochondrodysplasia

Appendix VI: Diagnostic Features of Small-cell Tumors

Glossary