This is a comprehensive textbook that provides a detailed description of the imaging techniques and findings in patients with benign and malignant bone tumors. In the first part of the book, the various techniques and procedures employed for imaging bone tumors are discussed in detail. Individual chapters are devoted to MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, and interventional procedures. The second part of the book gives an authoritative review of the role of these imaging techniques in diagnosis, surgical staging, biopsy, and assessment of response to therapy. The third part of the book covers the imaging features of each major tumor subtype, with separate chapters on osteogenic tumors, cartilaginous tumors, etc. The final part of the book reviews the imaging features of bone tumors at particular anatomical sites such as the spine, ribs, pelvis, and scapula. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in the field, and a wealth of illustrative material is included. This book will be of great value to musculoskeletal and general radiologists, orthopedic surgeons, and oncologists.

Zusammenfassung
Detection and characterization of bone tumors with imaging remains a big challenge for every radiologist notwithstanding the impressive progress achieved by the introduction of several new imaging modalities. Moreover, new concepts in surgical and oncological treatment of these lesions require from the radiologist appropriate and focused answers to the specifc questions asked by the referring physicians in order to choose the best therapeutic approach for the in- vidual patient. Tis comprehensive textbook describes in detail the possibilities and limits of all moda- ties, including MRI, CT, nuclear medicine and interventional radiological procedures, employed for the modern imaging of tumoral and tumor-like lesions of bone. Teir role in the diagnosis, surgical staging, biopsy and assessment of response to therapy is discussed in detail, covering all tumor subtypes as well as their specifc anatomical location.Well selected and technically imp- cable illustrations strongly enhance the didactic value of this work. I am very much indebted and grateful to the three editors: A. Mark Davies, Murali Sundaram and Steven L. J. James, world authorities in musculoskeletal radiology, for their superb scientifc achievement in preparing and editing this wonderful volume as well as for their individual ch- ters. I would also like to thank the large international group of collaborating authors, who are also widely acknowledged for their specifc expertise in the area of bone tumors, for their outstanding contributions.

Inhalt
Bone Tumors: Epidemiology, Classification, Pathology.- Computed Tomography of Bone Tumours.- Imaging Techniques: Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Nuclear Medicine.- Ultrasonography.- Interventional Techniques.- Principles of Detection and Diagnosis.- Biopsy.- Surgical Staging 1: Primary Tumour.- Surgical Staging 2: Metastatic Disease.- Assessment of Response to Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy.- Assessment of Locally Recurrent Disease.- Cartilage Tumours.- Osseous Tumors.- Fibrogenic and Fibrohistiocytic Tumors.- Giant Cell Tumor.- Ewing Sarcoma/PNET Tumors.- Hematopoietic Tumors.- Angiomatous Neoplasms of the Skeletal System.- Notochordal Tumours.- Smooth Muscle Tumors.- Lipogenic Tumours of Bone.- Fibrous Dysplasia, Osteofibrous Dysplasia, and Adamantinoma.- Cystic Lesions of Bone.- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.- Bone Metastases 1: Spine.- Bone Metastases 2: Pelvis and Appendicular Skeleton.- Radiation-Induced Tumours.- Tumour and Tumour-like Conditions Associated with Paget's Disease of Bone.- Reactive, Metabolic, and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone.- Tumours of the Ribs and Clavicle.- Scapula.- Anatomical Considerations: Spine and Sacrum.- Bony Pelvis.- Hand and Wrist.- Tumours and Tumour-Like Lesions of the Patella.- Tumours of the Foot.- Compartmental Anatomy.- Who Was Who in Bone Tumours.