Publisher's Synopsis
A definitive benchbook, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, providing the diagnostic pathologist with authoritative guidance on the correct interpretation of histopathological specimens in one of the most difficult areas of surgical pathology. Method of diagnosis, including imaging and cytogenetics, are explained in the first section of the book. These methods are integrated into the main body of the text to illustrate and describe the tumours and tumour-like lesions affecting bone with the use of both micrographs and radiographic images. A separate section then covers tumours and tumour-like lesions of the joints. The final section provides the pathologist with concise accounts of the appropriate treatments of the lesions diagnosed.
