This book communicates the latest findings in pediatric orthopedics and answers key everyday questions in the field in an informative, readily understandable manner. The scope is comprehensive, encompassing all aspects of diagnosis and therapy. After an opening section on basic principles, the two main sections discuss diseases and injuries by site and cover systemic conditions including trauma, infections, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, tumors and hereditary diseases. The book is the translation of the latest edition of the well-known classic Kinderorthopädie in der Praxis, which presents the collected knowledge of experts from Basel University Children's Hospital – Fritz Hefti and his co-workers Reinald Brunner, Carol Claudius Hasler, and Gernot Jundt. This edition has been revised and updated in a variety of ways. New findings are incorporated into all chapters, important advances in treatment are presented and the latest concepts in tumor diagnosis and neuro-orthopedics are discussed. The book contains more than 150 additional illustrations, including new clinical images and radiographs and many further amusing cartoons by Franz Freuler. The aim is to make children’s orthopedics fun – in both practice and theory! The book has received several awards.

This volume presents both the radiologist's and the pathologist's approach to differential diagnosis of musculoskeletal tumors and tumor-like lesions and details the radiologic and histopathologic features helpful in confirming a diagnosis. The book is illustrated with over 1,200 radiographs, CT and MR images, full-color photomicrographs, and schematic drawings. Tables list important diagnostic features, and schematic drawings summarize both radiologic and pathologic differential diagnoses. This edition includes state-of-the-art information on PET, thin-section CT, 3-D CT, MRI, enzyme histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and molecular cytogenetics. The new co-author, Gernot Jundt, was instrumental in revising the WHO classification of musculoskeletal lesions. Illustrations have been updated, and improved captions begin with the diagnosis.

Der „Freyschmidt" gilt als das führende deutschsprachige Standardwerk zur Klinik, Radiologie und Pathologie der Knochentumoren. Die Autoren sind Experten mit vieljähriger Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Knochentumor-Diagnostik. In einer einzigartigen Synopsis vermitteln sie das aktuelle klinikrelevante Wissen auf höchstem Qualitätsniveau. Die überarbeitete 3. Auflage orientiert sich an der revidierten WHO-Klassifikation der Knochentumoren, Lyon 2002. Behandelt werden Knochengeschwülste und geschwulstähnliche Läsionen des gesamten Skeletts einschließlich der Kieferregion. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die modernen diagnostischen Verfahren der Radiologie und der Patho-Histologie einschließlich Molekulargenetik. Das erstklassige Bildmaterial wurde erweitert und aktualisiert. Durch die klare Systematik und die instruktiven Abbildungen wird die Problematik der Knochentumoren plastisch und durchschaubar. Die synoptische Darstellung macht das Buch zum idealen Nachschlagewerk für Orthopäden, Pathologen und Radiologen.