Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schepper, Arthur M. De (Editor), Vanhoenacker, Filip (Editor), Gielen, Jan (Editor), Parizel, Paul M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Oncology.; Orthopedics.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Surgical Orthopedics.

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, epidemiolo...

Table of Contents:

• 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.