DESCRIPTION:
The book covers the common clinical scenarios encountered for the heterogeneous group of bone and soft tissue tumors. Each chapter follows a uniform format of an illustrative patient case summary representative of each type of sarcoma, followed by an evidence-based case discussion reviewing the current guidelines and basis for the diagnostic and therapeutic steps taken. The book includes histology inserts to highlight the classic features of various types of sarcoma, alongside with the accompanying auxiliary molecular tests to aid the diagnosis and their clinical implications.
The book provides assistance to medical practitioners, trainees and students to better understand the various types of sarcomas from the importance of an accurate diagnosis to the management principles, as well as controversies in the treatment of these rare tumors. It will be relevant for pathologists and oncologists as well as all other clinicians (general, medical, surgery, radiology) that have a special interest in bone and soft tissue tumor.
CONTENTS:
General Principles
Introduction
Imaging in Bone and Soft Tissue Tumours
Pathology
Surgery
Medical Therapy in Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Radiation Therapy
Surveillance and Survivorship
Germline Genetic Predisposition to Sarcomas
Future Treatment in Sarcomas
Bone Tumours
Osteosarcoma
Chondrosarcoma
Ewing Sarcoma
Chordoma
Giant Cell Tumour
Fibrous Dysplasia
Osteochondroma and Hereditary Multiple Osteochondromas
Bone Cysts
Soft Tissue Tumours
Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma (UPS)
Lipomatous Tumours
Myxoid Tumours
Smooth Muscle Tumours: Leiomyosarcoma (Non-uterine)
Skeletal Muscle Tumours
Fibrous and Myofibroblastic Tumours
Vascular Tumours
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST)
Uterine Sarcomas (Leiomyosarcoma, Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma and Adenosarcoma)
Synovial Sarcoma
Solitary Fibrous Tumour
Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma
Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumour (MPNST)
Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour
Pathology Update of Rare or Recently Defined Entities
