Atlas of Orthopaedic Radiology

For orthopaedic radiologists and surgeons, this atlas has been extended to include improved radiographic images, information about magnetic resonance imaging where appropriate, and additional sections on congenital diseases, metabolic bone diseases and AIDS.

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Directed at the needs of orthopaedists and residents in orthopaedics, as well as radiologists and radiologists in training, this book aims to facilitate the complex process of diagnostic investigation. Clearly, systematically and logically, it strives to provide basic understanding of contemporary imaging methods, such as radiography, scanography, arthrography, scintigraphy, stress views, digital radiography, computed tomography, MRI, myelography and sonography. It analyzes and demonstrates the comparative diagnostic utility of different imaging studies in different settings, including trauma osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, tumours and tumour-like lesions, infections, metabolic and endocrine disorders, and congenital and developmental anomalies. Further, the work offers guidance in selecting the most effective radiological techniques - aimed at minimizing cost and radiation exposure - in specific settings. The second edition features two new chapters: one on the application of different radiological imaging techniques in the evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders; the other concerns bone formation and growth.
There is also an updated and revised trauma section with numerous new illustrations, including innovative circular diagrams on imaging techniques for evaluating injury in various regions of the axial and appendicular skeleton. The second edition also covers the arthridites, with recent data on hyperuricaemia, rheumatoid factors, antinuclear antibodies, and synovial fluid analysis. These are accompanied by new sections on polymyositis, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease and systemic lupus erythematosus, among others. Finally, this edition contains key histopathological findings, and their clinical implications, in musculoskeletal tumours.