Practical Guide for Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumours

Soft tissue tumours are extremely common although difficult to understand due to a large number of sub-types, leading to a significant increase in their imaging in the last decade. This highly illustrated practical book provides a simplified, systematic approach to imaging, reporting and diagnosing these tumours. It covers all the modalities with emphasis on ultrasound and MRI, along with the newer techniques in these modalities. This concise guide to soft tissue lesions, will help clinicians to quickly understand the spectrum of tumours and identify the appropriate imaging techniques to best serve their patients.

Key Features
• Provides guidance by international experts on various types of soft tissue tumours (benign, malignant and tumour mimics), their relevant imaging features to help suggest specific or differential diagnosis and when to biopsy and when to refer to specialist centres.
• Proves to be an excellent resource for general and specialist radiologists, radiology trainees, sonographers, sarcoma surgeons and oncologists for day-to-day reporting.
• Discusses the importance of proper imaging and biopsy of tumors and the implications of unplanned excisions in sarcoma.

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
About the editors
List of contributors
1. Approach to soft tissue lesions
2. Imaging modalities and techniques in soft tissue tumours
3. Lipomatous tumours
4. Fibroblastic, myofibroblastic and fibrohistiocytic tumours
5. Peripheral nerve tumours
6. Synovial pathologies
7. Muscle tumours
8. Vascular tumours
9. Tumours of uncertain origin
10. Other non-sarcomatous soft tissue tumours
11. Soft tissue tumour mimics
12. Biopsy of soft tissue tumours
13. Histopathology of soft tissue lesions
14. Imaging of post-treatment changes in soft tissue sarcomas
Index

Preface
Soft tissue lesions, sometimes referred to as “lumps and bumps”, are very common in clinical practice. These have seen an increase in their imaging due to improved public awareness and advances in imaging. However, the vast number of different types of soft tissue tumours and their mimics makes their diagnosis challenging. Imaging plays a vital role in their management from diagnosis or differential diagnosis to biopsy, staging and post-treatment follow up.
Our book has been written with the aim of providing radiologists, including those under training, sonographers and sarcoma clinicians, with a handy guide covering various subtypes of soft tissue tumours as per the latest WHO classification, and simplifying approach and understanding of these lesions. The book also has chapters covering soft tissue tumour biopsy, histopathology, post-treatment imaging and soft tissue tumour mimics.
All the chapters illustrate the lesions with example images covering different modalities. These include ultrasound, MRI including advanced sequences, computed tomography and positron emission tomography-CT. Charts and flow charts have been used extensively throughout the book and each chapter has “Take-Home Points” in the end.
We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed chapters to this book and thank the publishers for all their help at every stage of the publication. We would like to particularly thank Himani Dwivedi and Shivangi Pramanik for their tireless efforts and for putting up with us through the editorial process.

Dr Harun Gupta

Dr Siddharth Thaker