BookFilip M. Vanhoenacker, Paul M. Parizel, Jan L. Gielen, editors.
Summary: 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: Ultrasound
Plain Radiography Computed Tomography and Angiography
Nuclear Medicine Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: basic concepts
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: advanced imaging techniques
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Biopsy of Soft Tissue Tumors
Pathology of Soft Tissue Tumors
Part II Staging, Grading and Tissue Specific Diagnosis: Staging
Grading and Tissue Specific diagnosis
Diagnostic Algorithm
Part III Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors: WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumors
Adipocytic Tumors
Fibroblastic/Myofibroblastic Tumors
So-called Fibro-histiocytic Tumors
Tumors of Smooth and Skeletal muscle and pericytic tumors
Vascular Tumors
Chondro-osseous Tumors
Tumors of uncertain differentiation
Part IV Imaging of other Soft Tissue Masses
Synovial Lesions
Lesions form the peripheral nerves
Pseudotumoral Lesions
Soft Tissue Metastasis
Soft Tissue Lymphoma
Part V Soft Tissue Tumors in Pediatric Patients
Part VI Imaging after Treatment.