Provides a condensed overview of relevant topics in musculoskeletal diseases

Chapters are disease-oriented and cover all major imaging modalities

Relevant not only for radiologists, rheumatologists, orthopaedics surgeons, but also for clinicians in other speciatlies wishing to update their knowledge in this field?

Muskuloskeletal Diseases Imaging: Shoulder: Instability.- Shoulder: Rotator Cuff.- Elbow.- Wrist and Hand.- Hip.- Pelvis and Groin.- Knee.- Ankle and Foot.- Postoperative Knee and Shoulder.- Tumors: Soft Tissue, Bone, Bone Marrow.- Arthritis.- Metabolic/Endocrine.- Spine: Trauma.- Spine: Degeneration and Inflammation.- Infection.- Ultrasolography: Sports Injuries.- Cartilage Imaging.- Muscle Imaging.- Peripheral Nerve Imaging.- Specific Aspects of Sport Related Injuries of the Pediatric Musculoskeletal System.- Non Traumatic Musculoskeletal Abnormalities in Pediatrics.- Nuclear Medicine : CT Specifies Bone Lesions in SPECT/CT.- Single Photon Imaging Including SPECT/CT in Patients with Prosthesis.- PET Imaging of Bone Metastases with FDG, Fluorite and Gallium-Somatostatin Analogues.- Imaging of Metastatic Bone and Soft Tissue Lesions in Prostate Cancer with Fluoro-Choline.- FDG-PET/CT Staging and Follow-up in Soft Tissue Sarcomas.- SPECT,CT and MR: Integration in Degenerative Musculoskeletal Diseases.- The use of NM in Primary and Metastatic Bone Tumors.- Pediatric Section: Imaging of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthrisis.- Non-Accidental Trauma and Its Imitators.- Vascular and Lymphatic Malformations of the Musculoskeletal System.- Pediatric Musculoskeletal Diseases and Their Different Manifestation in Adults.- Breast Imaging: chapters to be decided.