Sale Price: £65.00 (Normally: £105.00). In recent years, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has become a widely accepted procedure in the diagnosis of bone lesions. Rapid progress in immunocytochemistry and molecular genetics has increased the role of FNAC in the investigation of primary bone lesions. The purpose of this book is to facilitate the cytological evaluation of FNA smears from skeletal lesions and to provide diagnostic criteria based on the combined evaluation of clinical data and radiographic and cytological features. The major aim is to thoroughly describe and illustrate the most common entities as well as the diagnostic use of ancillary techniques. A number of rare primary bone tumours/lesions are also illustrated.
The selection of entities illustrated in this comprehensive manual is based mainly on experience with patients referred to the Musculoskeletal Centre in Lund, Sweden, which now comprises smear data from approximately 1000 skeletal tumours/lesions collected between 1966 and 2006.
This publication will be a valuable resource for pathologists, cytopathologists, radiologists, oncologists and orthopaedic surgeons involved in the work-up and management of patients with bone lesions.

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1 Epidemiology of Bone Tumours

Chapter 2
Radiological Investigation of Bone Tumours

Chapter 3
Morphological Diagnosis of Bone Tumours
Chapter 4
Cytology of Normal Constituents in Bone Aspirates and of Reactive Changes
Chapter 5
Cytological Features of Bone Tumours in FNA Smears I: Osteogenic Tumours
Chapter 6
Cytological Features of Bone Tumours in FNA Smears II: Cartilaginous Tumours
Chapter 7
Cytological Features of Bone Tumours in FNA Smears III: Ewing Family Tumours
Chapter 8
Cytological Features of Bone Tumours in FNA Smears IV: Notochordal Tumours
Chapter 9
Cytological Features of Bone Tumours in FNA Smears V: Giant-Cell Lesions
Chapter 10
Rare Targets for FNAC and Diagnostic Problems with Benign Tumours/Lesions with Variable Numbers of Osteoclast-Like Giant Cells
Chapter 11
Lymphohaematopoetic and Histiocytic Tumours
Chapter 12
Inflammatory Lesions
Chapter 13
Bone Metastases
Chapter 14
Fine Needle Aspiration as the First Diagnostic Modality for Spinal and Sacral Lesions