Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone

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Product Description This updated second edition of a successful book provides essential, internationally applicable information in the area of bone and joint pathology with emphasis on practical diagnostic aspects, including many illustrations: roentgenograms, CT-scans, MRI, scintigraphies, as well as pictures of gross surgical specimens and microphotographs, immunohistochemical reactions and genomics. Information on histopathological and molecular diagnosis, and basic therapeutic guidelines are provided. This book offers generous coverage of epidemiology, clinical features, radiology, pathology, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, not only for common lesions, but also for those less frequently encountered, including lesions of joints. The content is arranged based on the World Health Organization’s Consensus Classification, with the addition of other lesions not included therein.  Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone provides day-to-day assistance to general and specialized surgical pathologists, radiologists, orthopedic, head and neck and dental surgeons, oncologists and rheumatologists. From the Back Cover This updated second edition of a successful book provides essential, internationally applicable information in the area of bone and joint pathology with emphasis on practical diagnostic aspects, including many illustrations: roentgenograms, CT-scans, MRI, scintigraphies, as well as pictures of gross surgical specimens and microphotographs, immunohistochemical reactions and genomics. Information on histopathological and molecular diagnosis, and basic therapeutic guidelines are provided.     This book offers generous coverage of epidemiology, clinical features, radiology, pathology, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, not only for common lesions, but also for those less frequently encountered, including lesions of joints. The content is arranged based on the World Health Organization’s Consensus Classification, with the addition of other lesions not included therein.  Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone provides day-to-day assistance to general and specialized surgical pathologists, radiologists, orthopedic, head and neck and dental surgeons, oncologists and rheumatologists.   About the Author EDUARDO SANTINI-ARAUJO, MD, PhD Dr. Eduardo Santini-Araujo gained his medical degree in 1973, at the Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and got his certificate in Pathology after Medical Residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology certified by the Argentine Society of Orthopaedia. In 1978, while working as fellow of the Orthopaedic Society, he started his work with his mentor Prof. Dr Fritz Schajowicz. He worked also with Dr Steven Teitelbaum at the Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St Louis Missouri and with Prof Franz Enzinger in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC. Since 1978 he has worked with Prof Rómulo L Cabrini as Associate Researcher in the Department of Radiobiology of the National Atomic Energy Commission, Buenos Aires and as fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technologic Research. He acted as Chair of the Department of Pathology of the HGRL 601 Central Army Hospital, Buenos Aires and is Chair Professor of the Department of Pathology of the School of Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology of the Dentistry School of the University of Buenos Aires. He has been an Active Member of the International Skeletal Society since 1993 and of the International Academy of Pathology since 1975. He is currently President of the International Academy of Pathology. He was a member of the WHO working group that established the Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone in 2002 and also of the group that revised it in 2013. He has given many presentations during his professional life, in several countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia