PATHOLOGY OF BONE AND JOINT DISORDERS

Full Author:

Edward F. McCarthy, MD Associate Professor of Pathology and Orthopedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of medicine, Baltimore, MD Frank J Frassia, MD Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Oncology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Description:

The new, user-friendly, descriptive, and affordable reference reviews the entire spectrum of orthopedic diseases. Its mulitdisciplinary approach stresses teamwork between orthopedists, radiologists, and pathologists. Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, each chapter cpvers a ,ajor disease category, including metabolic bone disease, congenital bone disease, bone tumours, and infection.

Features:

* Features an interdisciplinary team approach, delineating the relationship of historic changes with radiologic features and the behaviour of each lesion. * Offers a concise, but comprehensive overview of bone disease in a single reference. * Uses a consistent approach to each disease catagory that includes a short historical introduction, a clinical discussion, a radiographic analysis (including MR and CT), a description of the histopathology, and treatment suggestions. * Presents an overveiw of hte basic principles of radiologic and pathologic diagnosis in the introductory chapter. * Outlines the language of orthopedic processes in the Anatomy and Physiology of Bone chapter. * Shows the methods for interpreting radiographic images, and features typical images for each disease. * Provides abuntant gross photographs, radiographic images, photomicrographs, and diagrams.

Contents:

Diagnosing Bone Disease. Anatomy of Physiology and Bone. Genetic Diseases of Bone and Joint. Metabolic Bone Disease. The Pathophysiology of Fractures. Skeletal Manifestations of Systmic Disease. Osteonecrosis. Infections of Bone and Joint. Paget's Disease. Metastatic Carcinoma in Bone. Plasma Cell Dyscrasia. Primary Bone Tumors. Bone Cysts. Tumor-like Lesions. Diseases of Synovial Membrane. Diseases of Joints. The Pathology of Failed Total Joint Arthroplasty. Management of Orthopedic Pathology Specimens from the Operating Room to Microscope.