Diseases of bones and joints

This comprehensive and highly-illustrated text on bone and joint disease is split into four parts. Part One is a practical section on diagnosis, with an emphasis on the importance of imaging, including a Diagnostic Checklist. This provides mandatory, optional and exclusion criteria for each diagnosis and is cross-referenced to Parts Two and Three. Part Two deals with a wide selection of disease entities, excluding neoplasia, to which Part Three is devoted.

The final part covers the histology and cell biology of bone, including embryology, and these chapters may be read independently of the rest of the book. Diseases of Bones and Joints will be useful to pathologists, orthopaedic surgeons, metabolic bone disease physicians and rheumatologists as both a practical manual for diagnostic purposes and as a comprehensive reference on these disorders.