This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive survey of the growing role of medical imaging studies in the detection, staging, grading, tissue characterization, and post-treatment follow-up of soft tissue tumors. For each tumor group, the book correlates imaging findings with clinical, epidemiologic, and histological data. It discusses and compares relative merits and indications of various imaging modalities, with particular emphasis on MRI because of its unique contrast resolution and multiplanar imaging capabilities. This third, revised and updated edition includes new chapters on genetics and molecular biology and on pathology of soft tissue tumors, with respect to the new World Health Organization (WHO) classification of soft tissue tumors. It serves both as a systematic, descriptive textbook and as a rich pictorial database of soft tissue masses. The addition of numerous new illustrations of common and rare soft tissue tumors further increases the scientific and educational value of this third edition.

Inhalt
Diagnostic Modalities.- Ultrasound of Soft Tissue Tumors.- Color Doppler Ultrasound.- Plain Radiography, Angiography, and Computed Tomography.- Nuclear Medicine Imaging.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics of Soft Tissue Tumors and Bone Tumors.- Soft Tissue Tumours: the Surgical Pathologist's Perspective.- Biopsy of Soft Tissue Tumors.- Staging, Grading, and Tissue Specific Diagnosis.- Staging.- Grading and Tissue-Specific Diagnosis.- General Imaging Strategy of Soft Tissue Tumors.- Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors.- Tumors of Connective Tissue.- Fibrohistiocytic Tumors.- Lipomatous Tumors.- Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions of Blood Vessels.- Lymphatic Tumors.- Tumors of Muscular Origin.- Synovial Tumors.- Tumors of Peripheral Nerves.- Extraskeletal Cartilaginous and Osseous Tumors.- Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors and Related Lesions.- Lesions of Uncertain Differentiation.- Pseudotumoral Lesions.- Soft Tissue Metastasis.- Soft Tissue Lymphoma.- Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors in The Pediatric Patient.- Imaging After Treatment.- Follow-Up Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors.