
Musculoskeletal Imaging
The Core Requisites
- 5th Edition - August 17, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: David A. May, William B. Morrison, Jeffrey A. Belair
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 8 0 5 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 8 0 6 0 - 8
Focusing on high-yield information, Musculoskeletal Imaging: The Core Requisites, 5th edition emphasizes the basics to help you establish a foundational understanding of musculo… Read more

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Request a sales quoteEmphasizes the essentials in a templated, quick-reference format that includes numerous outlines, tables, pearls, boxed material, and bulleted content for easy reading, reference, and recall.
Prioritizes and explains the key information that you will be tested on to help you efficiently and effectively prepare for board exams.
Helps you build and solidify core knowledge to prepare you for clinical practice with critical, up-to-date information on sports injuries and other trauma, joint diseases, musculoskeletal tumors and infection, bone marrow imaging, pediatric conditions, and basic image-guided musculoskeletal procedures.
Includes sample report templates and numerous tips on effective communication of imaging findings.
Features more than 1,200 high-quality images spanning the diagnosis of conditions and diseases of the musculoskeletal system. All imaging modalities are covered, including MRI, ultrasound, CT, radiography, and nuclear medicine.
Published as part of the newly reimagined Core Requisites series, an update to the popular Requisites series aimed at radiology trainees and today’s busy clinicians.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Introduction to musculoskeletal imaging
- Part 1: Bones
- Bone anatomy
- Embryology and bone growth after birth
- Pathophysiology: Bone trauma
- Part 2: Joints and soft tissues
- Joint basics
- Ligament basics
- Tendon basics
- Skeletal muscle basics
- Articular cartilage basics
- Nerve basics
- Foreign body imaging
- Part 3: Special considerations in imaging of musculoskeletal injury in children
- Long bone growth and remodeling
- Physeal fractures
- Child abuse
- Measuring skeletal maturity
- Sources and suggested readings
- 2. Shoulder
- Anatomy
- Imaging techniques
- Pathophysiology
- Disease processes
- Structured report
- Sources and suggested readings
- 3. Elbow
- Anatomy
- Imaging techniques
- Pathophysiology
- Disease processes
- Structured report
- Sources and suggested readings
- 4. Hand and wrist
- Anatomy
- Imaging techniques
- Pathophysiology
- Disease processes
- Structured report
- Sources and suggested readings
- 5. Pelvis and hips
- Pelvis
- Trauma pathophysiology
- Imaging
- Pelvic fractures: Biomechanical classification
- Pelvic fractures: Pelvic ring classification
- Additional injuries
- Hip and femur
- Muscle/tendon injury
- Appendix: Measurements of acetabular dysplasia and femoroacetabular impingement in adolescents and adults
- Sources and suggested readings
- 6. Knee
- Radiographic anatomy
- Fractures and dislocations
- Menisci
- Ligaments
- Tendon pathology
- Fluid collections: Cysts and bursitis
- Articular cartilage injury
- Miscellaneous knee conditions
- Sources and suggested readings
- 7. Ankle and foot
- Ankle
- Hindfoot, midfoot, and forefoot
- Sources and suggested readings
- 8. Spine
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Imaging techniques
- Pathophysiology
- Disease processes
- Reporting tips and recommendations
- Sources and suggested readings
- 9. Arthritis
- Introduction
- Imaging modalities
- Approach to radiographic assessment of arthritis
- Imaging characteristics of specific diseases
- Degenerative disease
- Inflammatory disorders
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathies
- DISH and OPLL
- SAPHO syndrome
- Connective-tissue diseases
- Crystalline and deposition diseases
- Metabolic conditions
- Noninflammatory monoarticular arthropathies
- Miscellaneous joint disorders
- Key elements of a structured report
- Appendix: Distribution patterns in specific forms of arthritis
- Sources and suggested readings
- 10. Arthroplasty
- Introduction
- Imaging techniques
- Disease processes
- Reporting tips and recommendations
- Sources and suggested readings
- 11. Bone tumors
- Approach to bone tumors and tumorlike conditions
- Benign bone-forming tumors
- Malignant bone-forming tumors (osteosarcomas)
- Cartilage-forming tumors
- Fibrous tumors and tumorlike conditions
- Fibroblastic tumors
- Fibrohistiocytic tumors
- Fatty tumors
- Vascular tumors
- Marrow tumors
- Miscellaneous tumors and tumorlike lesions
- Template
- Sources and suggested readings
- 12. Soft tissue tumors
- Introduction
- Imaging techniques
- Soft tissue masses
- Tumor staging, biopsy, and follow-up
- Reporting tips and recommendations
- Sources and suggested readings
- 13. Bone marrow and metabolic bone disease
- Bone marrow imaging
- Osteonecrosis (avascular necrosis)
- Osteoporosis
- Disorders of calcium homeostasis
- Thyroid-related conditions
- Additional metabolic conditions
- Hematologic disorders
- Paget’s disease of bone
- Sources and suggested readings
- 14. Musculoskeletal infection
- Introduction
- Types of bacterial infection and imaging findings
- Bacterial infection of the spine
- Histology/culture
- Common organisms in bacterial osteomyelitis
- Atypical manifestations of bacterial infection
- Noninfectious bone reaction to adjacent soft tissue inflammation
- Musculoskeletal infection with ‘atypical’ organisms
- Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Sources and suggested readings
- 15. Congenital and developmental conditions
- Scoliosis
- Miscellaneous spine disorders
- Torsion of the femur and tibia
- Congenital and developmental hip disorders
- Blount’s disease (tibia vara)
- Common congenital foot deformities
- Coalitions
- Skeletal dysplasias
- Radial dysplasias
- Connective-tissue disorders
- Gigantism and hypoplasia
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Mucopolysaccharidoses
- Gaucher disease
- Additional conditions
- Appendix: Infant hip ultrasonography for DDH: Technique
- Landmarks
- Images
- Sources and suggested readings
- 16. Musculoskeletal procedures and techniques
- Biopsy
- Arthrography and aspiration
- Sources and suggested readings
- Index
- Inside back cover
- Edition: 5
- Published: August 17, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 752
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323680592
- eBook ISBN: 9780323680608
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