Publisher's Synopsis
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, imaging findings are correlated with clinical, epidemiologic, and histologic data.;The relative merits and indications of various imaging modalities are discussed and compared.;Particular emphasis is placed on MRI because of its unique contrast resolution and multiplanar imaging capabilities.;This second, revised and updated edition includes new chapters on soft tissue lymphoma, soft tissue tumors in the pediatric patient and biopsy of soft tissue tumors.;It aims to serve both as a systematic, descriptive textbook and as a rich pictorial database of soft tissue masses.;This clinically oriented book will be of use not only to radiologists but also to orthopedic surgeons, oncologists and pathologists.
