Soft Tissue and Bone Pathology: A Question and Answer Based Review

by Agedi Boto, Jose Costa

This book focusses on soft tissue and bone pathology: A question and answer based review. Soft tissue includes the tissues that connect, support or surround other structures and organs of the body, not being hard tissue such as bone. Soft tissue includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, skin, fibrous tissues, fat, and synovial membranes (which are connective tissue), and muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. Bone pathology, also known as orthopedic pathology is a subspecialty of surgical pathology which deals with the diagnosis and feature of many bone diseases. This book consists of 10 chapters. Monotonous spindle cell lesions, pleomorphic lesions, benign entities, lesions with a prominent vascular component, lesions with a prominent myxoid component, lesions with epithelioid cells or abundant vacuolated/amphophilic/eosinophilic cytoplasm, lytic and cystic lesions of bones and joints, small round blue cell tumor, joint and bone lesions with giant cells and lesions forming bone and cartilage are covers in this book. This book is designed to be a study tool for trainees in pathology to exercise and gauge their knowledge about the pathology of the tumor and tumor-like conditions occurring in the musculoskeletal system and somatic soft tissues.

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