Piero Picci - Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions: Clinical, Radiological and Histological Correlations - The Rizzoli Case Archive

This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

This is a second book based on the data of the Rizzoli case archive, after the one published in 2014 with the titleAtlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions: The Rizzoli Case Archive.

In this new one, not only the epidemiological data are updated with the addition of about 7000 new lesions diagnosed in 5 years between 2013 and 2017, but also some chapters were added and/or modified based on the more recent discoveries in terms of clinical, histological, and molecular investigations.

In particular, small blue round cell tumors are deeply analyzed and presented, as the whole spectrum of vascular lesions, with the introduction of new entities, as for the presentation of a new classification for those sarcomas of bone in the past simply diagnosed as malignant fibrous histiocytoma or fibrosarcoma. More space is also dedicated to soft tissue lesions and also to those more rare entities not discussed in the previous book.

What presented reflects the experience of the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute in over 100 years of treatment of musculoskeletal tumors and tumorlike lesions. The first treated case dated September 28, 1900, and the archive contains the original material (clinical charts, imaging, paraffin blocks, and histological slides) of more than 47,000 cases (about 32,000 bone lesions and 15,000 soft tissue lesions).

Each single entity is presented multidisciplinarily, with the pertinent clinical, radiological, and histological correlations. The treatment is briefly reported for each entity. Other separate chapters analyze the more recent biomolecular findings useful for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.

The text reflects the improvements in knowledge of musculoskeletal tumors as presented during the yearly international course held at the Rizzoli Institute.