Main description:

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.

Contents:

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.- - Craniofacial tumours and pseudotumours of non-dental origin.- - Odontogenic tumours and pseudotumours.- 39. Extraskeletal skeletogenic tumours.- - Chondroma, osteochondroma.- - Synovial chondromatosis: nodular type.- - Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation.- - Extraskeletal chondrosarcoma.- - Primary extraskeletal skeletogenic sarcoma.- 40. Bony and osteoperiosteal pseudotumours.- - Periosteal fasciitis.- - Periostosis, periostitis.- - Insertional disorders: strain osteotendinitis.- - Bone infarction, osteonecrosis and osteochondritis.- - Mastocytosis with bony presentation.- - Pagetic and pagetoid remodelling.- 41. Calcified and/or ossified lesions of the soft tissues and various disorders affecting bone.- - Circumscribed myositis ossificans and related lesions.- - Tumour calcinosis.- - Ossifying fibromyxoid tumour of the soft tissues.- - Pigmented villonodular synovitis.- - Synovial sarcoma.- - Tumour-like bony lesions related to central or peripheral neurological disorders.- - Parathyroid osteosis.- - Sinus histiocytosis: Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman disease.- - Erdheim-Chester disease.- Technical notes.