Bone Metastases : Diagnosis and Treatment /
Bone Metastases brings together the many recent developments that are gradually improving the prospects for patients with secondary involvement of the skeleton in a primary cancer elsewhere. The morbidity from bone metastases is extensive, and the palliative and supportive treatment that sufferers r...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- The Nature of Metastatic Bone Disease
- Normal Bone Remodelling and its Disruption in Metas- tatic Bone Disease
- The Bone Scan in Metastatic Disease
- Radiology
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Assessment of Response to Treatment
- The Systemic Treatment of Bone Metastases
- Pathogenesis and Management of Cancer-Associated Hypercalcaemia
- Radiotherapy in the Management of Bone Metastases
- Isotope Therapy for Bone Metastases
- The Role of the Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Treatment of Skeletal Metastases
- Symptomatic and Supportive Care
- Subject Index.