This book represents a condensed version of the 20 topics dealing with imaging diagnosis and interventional therapies in musculoskeletal diseases. The disease-oriented topics encompass all the relevant imaging modalities including X-rays technology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound and magnetic resonance, as well as image-guided interventional techniques.

Seminars.- Shoulder.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Elbow.- Radiology of Hand and Wrist Injuries.- Wrist and Hand.- Imaging of the Painful Hip and Pelvis.- Imaging of the Knee.- Imaging of the Foot and Ankle.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Muscle.- Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Masses: A Systematic Approach to Diagnosis.- Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone.- Imaging of Bone Marrow Disorders.- Bone Marrow Disorders.- Metabolic and Systemic Bone Diseases.- Metabolic Bone Disease.- The Radiology of Hip and Knee Joint Prostheses.- Traumas of the Axial Skeleton.- Trauma of the Appendicular Skeleton.- Inflammatory Diseases of the Spine.- Degenerative Diseases of the Spine.- Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis.- Peripheral Arthritis.- Pediatric Satellite Course Kangaroo.- The Spectrum of Non-accidental Injury and Its Imitators in Children.- Contrast Enhancement of the Growing Skeleton: Rationale and Optimization in Pediatric MRI.- Imaging the Osseous and Soft Tissue Tumors in the Child.- Imaging the Childs Inflammatory and Infectious Musculoskeletal Pathology.- Special Aspects of Musculoskeletal Imaging in Children.- Musculoskeletal Sonography.