Main description:

The eontinual growth of radiologie information makes it inereas- ingly diffieult for the praetitioner to maintain eurrent clinieal knowledge. Radiologie textbooks eontaining mueh material for the praetieing clinieian are often impossible to review thoroughly. Such radiographie texts deseribing the hand as a window to the understanding of systemie disease are available, but there has been an absence of books whieh present an easily assimilated synopsis of this material. Professor Thijn has elegantly presented all the major and many minor features of diseases and eonditions that affeet the skeleton, using hand roentgenograms as a window. He has also included numerous illustrations of key assoeiated roentgeno- graphie manifestations elsewhere in the body. His organized pre- sentation of eaeh entity, including introductory remarks, radio- graphie findings in the hand and other sites, differential diagno- sis, and key referenees, forms a strueture through whieh an ap- propriate evaluation of a clinieal ease may be made.
The eoneise synopsis of eaeh disease entity, weIl illustrated by superb roentgenograms, provides an exeellent strueture for both the student first learning about such eonditions and the praetitioner researehing an explanation for partieular roentgeno- graphie findings. Professor Thijn has attempted, and I believe has sueeeeded admirably, to provide a souree from whieh a student or praeti- tioner of radiology may readily arrive at a differential diagnosis of an observed radiographie feature. LOUIS A. GILULA, M.D.

Contents:

1 Osteochondrodysplasias.- 1.1 Growth Defects of Tubular Bones and/or Spine.- 1.1.1 Thanatophoric Dysplasia.- 1.1.2 Chondrodysplasia Punctata.- 1.1.3 Achondroplasia and Hypochondroplasia.- 1.1.4 Diastrophic Dysplasia.- 1.1.5 Metatropic Dysplasia.- 1.1.6 Chondroectodermal Dysplasia.- 1.1.7 Asphyxiating Thoracic Dysplasia.- 1.1.8 Cleidocranial Dysplasia.- 1.1.9 Larsen's Syndrome.- 1.1.10 Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia.- 1.1.11 Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia.- 1.1.12 Trichorhinophalangeal Syndrome.- 1.2 Abnormalities of Density of Cortical Diaphyseal Structure and/or Metaphyseal Modeling.- 1.2.1 Osteogenesis Imperfecta.- 1.2.2 Osteopetrosis.- 1.2.3 Pyknodysostosis.- 1.2.4 Osteopoikilosis.- 1.2.5 Osteopathia Striata.- 1.2.6 Melorheostosis.- 1.2.7 Endosteal Hyperostosis.- 1.2.8 Pachydermoperiostosis.- 2 Dysostoses (Malformation of Individual Bones Singly or in Combination).- 2.1 Dysostoses with Cranial and Facial Involvement.- 2.1.1 Acrocephalosyndactyly and Acrocephalopolysyndactyly.- 2.1.2 Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome.- 2.2 Dysostoses with Predominant Involvement of Extremities.- 2.2.1 Radial Dysplasia.- 2.2.2 Ulnar Dysplasia.- 2.2.3 Central Dysplasia.- 2.2.4 Amniotic Bands.- 2.2.5 Terminal Transverse Defects.- 2.2.6 Accessory Carpals.- 2.2.7 Carpal Fusion.- 2.2.8 Carpal Angle.- 2.2.9 Cone-Shaped and Bracket-Shaped Epiphyses.- 2.2.10 Ivory Epiphyses.- 2.2.11 Brachydactyly and Brachymetacarpia.- 2.2.12 Symphalangism.- 2.2.13 Polydactyly.- 2.2.14 Syndactyly.- 2.2.15 Triphalangeal Thumb.- 2.2.16 Macrodystrophia Lipomatosa (Progressiva).- 2.2.17 Poland's Syndrome.- 2.2.18 Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome.- 2.2.19 Holt-Oram Syndrome.- 3 Idiopathic Osteolyses.- 3.1 Phalangeal Acro-Osteolysis.- 3.1.1 Hadju-Cheney Syndrome.- 3.1.2 Other Conditions Involving Acro-Osteolysis.- 3.2 Carpotarsal Osteolysis.- 4 Chromosomal Aberrations.- 4.1 Trisomy 18 Syndrome.- 4.2 Trisomy 21.- 4.3 Turner's Syndrome.- 5 Primary Growth Disturbances.- 5.1 Cornelia de Lange's Syndrome.- 5.2 Marfan's Syndrome.- 6 Metabolic Bone Diseases.- 6.1 Primary Diseases.- 6.1.1 Mucopolysaccharidosis.- 6.1.2 Hypoparathyroidism, Pseudohypoparathyroidism, and Pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism.- 6.2 Acquired Diseases.- 6.2.1 Rickets and Osteomalacia.- 6.2.2 Hypervitaminosis D.- 6.2.3 Hyperparathyroidism.- 6.2.4 Renal Osteodystrophy.- 6.2.5 Scurvy.- 6.2.6 Chondrocalcinosis.- 6.2.7 Other Crystal-Induced Diseases.- 6.2.8 Oxalosis.- 6.2.9 Paget's Disease.- 7 Other Disorders of Bones and Joints.- 7.1 Constitutional Diseases.- 7.1.1 Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita.- 7.1.2 Tuberous Sclerosis and Neurofibromatosis.- 7.1.2.1 Tuberous Sclerosis.- 7.1.2.2 Neurofibromatosis.- 7.1.3 Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.- 7.1.4 Angiodysplasia.- 7.1.5 Hyperlipoproteinemia.- 7.2 Endocrine Diseases.- 7.2.1 Hypothyroidism.- 7.2.2 Acromegaly.- 7.3 Arthritis and Osteomyelitis.- 7.3.1 Congenital Syphilis.- 7.3.2 Pyogenic Arthritis.- 7.3.3 Osteomyelitis.- 7.3.4 Adult Rheumatoid Arthritis.- 7.3.5 Rheumatoid Arthritis in Childhood and Adolescence.- 7.3.6 Psoriatic Arthritis.- 7.3.7 Reiter's Syndrome.- 7.3.8 Gout.- 7.3.9 Tuberculosis.- 7.3.10 Leprosy.- 7.3.11 Yaws.- 7.3.12 Sarcoidosis.- 7.3.13 Osteoarthrosis.- 7.3.14 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- 7.4 Bone Tumors.- 7.4.1 Benign Tumors.- 7.4.1.1 Osteoblastoma.- 7.4.1.2 Osteoid Osteoma.- 7.4.1.3 Chondroma.- 7.4.1.4 Chondromyxoid Fibroma.- 7.4.1.5 Osteochondroma.- 7.4.1.6 Giant Cell Tumor.- 7.4.1.7 Aneurysmal Bone Cyst.- 7.4.2 Malignant Tumors.- 7.4.2.1 Chondrosarcoma.- 7.4.2.2 Ewing's Sarcoma.- 7.4.2.3 Myeloma.- 7.4.2.4 Synovial Sarcoma.- 7.4.2.5 Metastatic Lesions.- 7.4.3 Benign Nonneoplastic Tumor-Like Bone Lesions.- 7.4.3.1 Fibrous Dysplasia.- 7.4.3.2 Epidermoid Cyst.- 7.4.4 Ossifying Tumor-Like Lesions in the Soft Tissue.- 7.4.4.1 Myositis Ossificans Circumscripta.- 7.4.4.2 Extraosseous Pseudo-osteoblastoma.- 7.4.5 Miscellaneous Lesions.- 7.4.5.1 Fibromatosis.- 7.4.5.2 Bone Metaplasia Due to Mechanical Irritation.- 7.4.5.3 Tumors of the Tendon Sheath.- 7.4.5.4 Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis.- 7.5 Chemical Agents.- 7.5.1 Fluorosis.- 7.5.2 Lead Poisoning.- 7.6 Miscellaneous Conditions.- 7.6.1 Lunatomalacia.- 7.6.2 Frostbite.- 7.6.3 Scleroderma.- 7.6.4 Metastatic Fat Necrosis.- 7.6.5 Neuropathic Arthropathy.- 7.6.6 Thalassemia.- 7.6.7 Systemic Mastocytosis.- 7.6.8 Periosteal New Bone Formation.