This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of imaging techniques and findings in the detection, characterization, local staging and post-treatment tumors of the osseous spine. In the first part of the book, the epidemiology, classification, pathology, genetics and molecular biology are discussed. The second part gives an overview of the basic semiology, imaging modalities including CT, MRI, PET and PET-CT, and staging. The third part of the book discusses the imaging of primary bone tumors of the spine and its mimics. In the fourth part, the treatment of tumors and tumor-like conditions of the spine is reviewed. The final part of the book summarizes post-treatment evaluation and assessment.Thus, the book will be a useful reference for general and musculoskeletal radiologists and residents, orthopaedic surgeons, oncologists and histopathologists.

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Mohamed Fethi Ladeb is Professor of Radiology at the Medical School of Tunis. He was former Head of the Department of Radiology, M. Kassab Orthopedic Institute, Tunisia. His subspecialty interest is musculoskeletal radiology. He is a member of the International Skeletal Society, the French Radiologic Society, the Swiss Radiologic Society, and the Tunisian Society of Telemedicine. His academic output comprises 100 journal publications, 17 book chapters, two guidelines and three book publications. Filip M. Vanhoenacker is staff radiologist at the Department of Radiology at the General Hospital Sint-Maarten Mechelen and Guest Professor of musculoskeletal radiology at the University of Antwerp's and Ghent's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He graduated as a medical doctor in 1987 from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and is a board-certified radiologist with extensive international experience. He has co-authored or authored 423 peer-reviewed scientific papers, eight books, and 103 book chapters. He is an active member of many national and international societies, including the European Society of Radiology (ESR). He served as Secretary and President of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR).