The new, user-friendly, descriptive, and affordable reference reviews the entire spectrum of orthopedic diseases. Its mulitdisciplinary approach stresses teamwork between orthopedists, radiologists, and pathologists. Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, each chapter cpvers a ,ajor disease category, including metabolic bone disease, congenital bone disease, bone tumours, and infection.
an interdisciplinary team approach, delineating the relationship of historic changes with radiologic features and the behaviour of each lesion.Offers a concise, but comprehensive overview of bone disease in a single reference.
Uses a consistent approach to each disease catagory that includes a short historical introduction, a clinical discussion, a radiographic analysis (including MR and CT), a description of the histopathology, and treatment suggestions.Presents an overveiw of hte basic principles of radiologic and pathologic diagnosis in the introductory chapter.
Outlines the language of orthopedic processes in the Anatomy and Physiology of Bone chapter.Shows the methods for interpreting radiographic images, and features typical images for each disease.
Provides abuntant gross photographs, radiographic images, photomicrographs, and diagrams.
McCarthy, a pathologist, and Frassica, an orthopedic surgeon, both at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, have collaborated to produce an eminently readable and informative book. In the introduction they state that the book is designed to be an introductory textbook for residents in pathology and orthopedic surgery and that it represents the minimum that such residents should aspire to learn during their residency. The authors have succeeded admirably in this plan. They present the entire spectrum of radiologic and pathological features of diseases of the bones and joints in logical sequence. The text is lucidly written, and the book can easily be read from cover to cover. This comprehensive and current book could be a useful addition to the libraries of practicing general orthopedic surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists as well as of those with a more specialized interest in the field.
The first chapter, an overview of skeletal diseases, emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of these diseases. It is followed by an elegantly illustrated and valuable review of the anatomy and physiology of bone. The succeeding chapters are devoted to detailed clinical, radiologic, and pathological features of bone and joint diseases, grouped into several disease categories. A later chapter reviews joint arthroplasty, including historical aspects and the features of failed prostheses. The final chapter gives practical advice on biopsy techniques and on the handling of surgical specimens. The success of such a book depends on high-quality images, and the carefully chosen illustrations -- radiologic images and gross and microscopical specimens -- are indeed of excellent quality.
The locations of certain neoplasms described in the text, however, do not always correspond precisely to the locations depicted in the diagrams of the skeleton; for instance, lymphomas are described as occurring more frequently in jawbones but not illustrated this way. The text is accurate, with only a rare exception. In discussing the relation of osteofibrous dysplasia to adamantinoma, the authors state that no case of transformation of osteofibrous dysplasia to adamantinoma has been reported, but such cases have, in fact, been reported. These minor imperfections notwithstanding, this is an excellent book.
Reviewed by Leonard B. Kahn, M.D.
