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) classification 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.

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.