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.

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.

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 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) calssification of soft tissue tumors.  It aims to serve 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, will further increase the scientific and educational value of this third edition. This clinically oriented book will be of use not only to radiologists but also to orthopedic surgeons, oncologists and pathologists.

From the reviews of the third edition: RAD-Magazine, Nov. 2006: "There is a lot of knowledge and experience between the two book covers, which is well presented...." "This third edition of ‘Imaging of soft tissue tumors’ has been considerably enlarged by using the bank data of the Belgian Soft Tissue Neoplasm Registry. … This new edition should be recommended to radiologists and nuclear medicine doctors, surgeons, oncologists, graduated or in training, but it is also of interest for the specialists related to the different soft tissues." (F Duparc, Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, Vol. 28, 2006)

Provides a sysematic approach to the radiological evaluation and diagnosis of soft tissue tumors and tumor-like masses New chapters on Genetics and Molecular Biology and on Pathology of Soft Tissue Tumors Presents the results of a European multicenter study, which collected over 800 cases of soft tissue tumors Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras