The production of a textbook of the pathology of bone work with isotopic markers to refine their classifica tion. tumours is a hard task to embark upon, but Andre In this book, the author takes up a firm position Mazabraud has certainly succeeded. about the difference between osteoid osteoma and oste It is the outcome of a very long experience, provided oblastoma, about "tumoral associations" and about the initially by his hospital training, then by his collabora so-called malignant forms of disorders described as tion with Rutishauser at the Institut de Pathologie at benign. His personal stamp is evident throughout the Geneva and with Dahlin at the Mayo Clinic. The bonds various chapters. he forged then have never been loosened. Certainly, treatment in the area is rapidly changing Subsequently, his duties as head of the department and advancing, but this book does not risk obsoles of pathology at the Institut Curie directed him finally cence since treatment is not its focus. The extent and towards tumour pathology. At the Institute, he was not nature of the author's experience explain the essentially satisfied with routine examinations but very soon linked anatomo-pathological orientation taken by this semi up with the research team and worked especially on nal book. It also provides valuable clinical information Ewing's sarcoma and the problems of ultrastructure, and a good radiological study.

Preamble to the study of cartilaginous tumours

1. Chondroma
2. Chondrosarcoma
3. Clear-cell chondrosarcoma
4. Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
5. Chondroblastoma
6. Osteogenic exostosis (osteochondroma), multiple exostoses, subungual exostosis, metachondromatosis
7. Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma
8. Osteoid osteoma
9. Benign osteoblastoma
10. Osteoma
11. Osteogenic sarcoma
12. Cortico-metaphyseal fibrous defect, non-ossifying fibroma, multiple fibromas, benign fibrous histiocytoma
13. Xanthoma
14. Desmoid fibroma
15. Chondromyxoid fibroma
16. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
17. Fibroblastic sarcoma
18. Ewing's sarcoma, neuroepithelioma and Askin's tumour
19. Adamantinoma of the long bones
20. Chordoma
21. Giant-cell tumour
22. Haemangioendothelioma
23. Haemangiopericytoma
24. Glomus tumour
25. Haemangioma
26. Lymphangioma
27. Lipoma, liposarcoma
28. Myxoma, fibromyxoma
29. Idiopathic cyst, juxta-articular and related cyst, epidermoid cyst, hydatid cyst
30. Aneurysmal cyst
31. Langerhans'cell histiocytosis: histiocytosis X, eosinophil granuloma
32. Fibrous dysplasia
33. Metastases (secondary cancers of bone)
34. Malignant lymphoma
35. Hodgkin's disease
36. Plasma-cell proliferations
37. Leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma
38. Craniofacial tumours and pseudotumours
39. Extraskeletal skeletogenic tumours
40. Bony and osteoperiosteal pseudotumours
41. Calcified and/or ossified lesions of the soft tissues and various disorders affecting bone
Technical notes.