Abdelhamid H.: Orthopedic Nuclear Medicine

By Lucignani, G

Elgazzar J., Abdelhamid H.: Orthopedic Nuclear Medicine. – A 240- page volume with 212 illustrations – Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2004.

This hook is a rich, systematic and exhaustive compendium that collates in one comprehensive volume the state of the art of orthopedic nuclear medicine. The value of the hook rests on its completeness.

The hook is divided in nine sections.

The first section entitled “Basic sciences of lione and joint diseases” describes the the anatomic, physiologic, pathologic states that occur in orthopedics and the technical aspects related to nuclear medicine in this area.

The second section entitled “Diagnosis of inflammatory bone diseases” describes the pathophysiology of the imaging procedures and diagnosis, by imaging, of skeletal infections.

The third section entitled “Diagnosis of metabolic, endocrine and congenital bone diseases describes a number of orthopaedic syndromes and their imaging: Paget. osteoporosis, osteomalacia, osteodystrophy, reflex shympathetic syndrome, etc.

The fourth section entitled “Diagnosis of trauma disorders deals with acute and stress fractures imaging as well as with graft healing and local responses to bone trauma.

The fifth section is entitled “Diagnosis of vascular disorders”.

The sixth section entitled “Neoplastic bone diseases” describes the scintigraphic findings in primary and metastatic tumors.

The seventh section is entitled “Diagnosis of joint disorders”.

The eigth chapter is entitled Diagnosis of soft tissue calcification” while the final section is devoted to the use of radionuclides in the treatment of bone and joint diseases.

This book is richly illustrated, clinically oriented and will provide a complete overview of orthopaedic disorders and is of interest for professionals in nuclear medicine hut also for orthopedists, radiologists, rheumatologists, residents, technologists and physicians in the above areas. This book it is not just on bone scans: it is around the science and clinics that make it valuable the use of molecular imaging in orthopaedic diseases and on the methodological background and techniques that are in current use to this end.

G. L.

Copyright Edizioni Minerva Medica Dec 2005