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Authors: Lucas F. Abrahao Machado, M.D., Ph.D., Nadine Aguilera, M.D., Rabia Ahmed, M.B.B.S., Alnoor Akber, M.D., Adeyinka O. Akinsanya, M.B.B.S., Borislav A. Alexiev, M.D., Rola H. Ali, M.D., Ahmad Alkashash, M.B.B.Ch., Alaaeddin Alrohaibani, M.D., Saba Anjum, M.B.B.S., Kshitij Arora, M.D., Tamanna Asghari, M.B.B.S., Nabeel Ashraf, M.D., Anshu Bandhlish, M.D., Cecilia Belzarena, M.D, M.P.H., Dariusz Borys, M.D., Iva Brčić, M.D., Ph.D., Qurratulain Chundriger, M.B.B.S., Jiufa Cui, M.D., Ph.D., Jessica L. Davis, M.D., Gustavo de la Roza, M.D., Carina Dehner, M.D., Ph.D., Brent A. Enniss, D.O., Mark Girton, M.D., Raul S. Gonzalez, M.D., Akif K. Guney, M.D., Hans Magne Hamnvåg, M.D., Dana J. Hariri, M.D., Jesse Hart, D.O., Melissa D. Hruby, D.O., Romana Idrees, M.B.B.S., Lawrence J. Jennings, M.D., Ph.D., Travis H. Johnson, D.O., M.S., Erica Kao, M.D., Hatem Kaseb, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Kemal Kösemehmetoğlu, M.D., William B. Laskin, M.D., Bernadette Liegl-Atzwanger, M.D., Jose G. Mantilla, M.D., Aisha Hassan Memon, M.B.B.S., Muhammad Khurram Minhas, M.B.B.S., Sarosh Moeen, M.B.B.S., Elham Nasri, M.D., Farres Obeidin, M.D., Erdener Özer, M.D., Ph.D., Ashley Patton, D.O., Ph.D., Nat Pernick, M.D., Yelena Piazza, M.D., Olga Pozdnyakova, M.D., Ph.D., Shadi Qasem, M.D., M.B.A., Madiha Bilal Qureshi, M.B.B.S., Aishwarya Ravindran, M.D., Karen L. Rech, M.D., John D. Reith, M.D. , Robert Ricciotti, M.D., Serenella Serinelli, M.D., Ph.D., Nuha Shaker, M.D., M.S., Vijay Shankar, M.D., Vignesh Shanmugam, M.D., Charanjeet Singh, M.D., Sahar Suleman, M.B.B.S., Ummiya Tahir, M.B.B.S., Muhammad Usman Tariq, M.B.B.S., Nasir Ud Din, M.B.B.S., Jaylou M. Velez-Torres, M.D., Paul E. Wakely, Jr., M.D., Kristina Wakeman, M.D., Jigang Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Laura Warmke, M.D., Sheren Younes, M.D., Ph.D., Ghazi Zafar, M.B.B.S., Lingxin Zhang, M.D.

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Table of contents
General:anatomy-bone & joints biopsy bone formation and growth books grossing, frozen section & features to report histology-bone histology-joints staging WHO classification
Developmental abnormalities:bone island fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva skeletal dysplasias
Osteomyelitis:bacterial osteomyelitis (acute) chronic osteomyelitis tuberculous osteomyelitis
Arthritis:calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease degenerative joint disease gout and gouty arthritis juvenile rheumatoid arthritis Lyme arthritis rheumatoid arthritis septic arthritis spondylodiskitis systemic lupus erythematosus tuberculous arthritis
Other nonneoplastic:avascular necrosis brown tumor bursitis cartilaginous rest cystic meniscus disc material epidermoid inclusion cyst fracture ganglion cyst implant related changes infarct osteocartilaginous loose bodies osteochondritis dissecans osteogenesis imperfecta osteopetrosis osteoporosis Paget disease rickets / osteomalacia synovial cysts synovial lipomatosis tumoral calcinosis
Osteogenic tumors
Benign:osteoma, NOS osteoid osteoma
Intermediate (locally aggressive):osteoblastoma, NOS
Malignant:osteosarcoma, NOS low grade (central) osteosarcoma telangiectatic osteosarcoma small cell osteosarcoma parosteal osteosarcoma periosteal osteosarcoma high grade surface osteosarcoma secondary osteosarcoma
Osteoclastic giant cell rich tumors
Benign:aneurysmal bone cyst nonossifying fibroma
Intermediate (locally aggressive, rarely metastasizing):giant cell tumor of bone, NOS
Malignant:giant cell tumor of bone, malignant
Undifferentiated small round cell sarcoma of bone and soft tissue:BCOR::CCNB3 sarcoma CIC rearranged sarcoma Ewing sarcoma round cell sarcomas with EWSR1 / FUS::NFATC2 translocation negative (pending) undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma
Chondrosarcoma:atypical cartilaginous tumor / chondrosarcoma, grade 1 chondrosarcoma (primary, secondary, periosteal) clear cell chondrosarcoma dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
Notochordal lesions:benign notochordal cell tumor chordoma
Other chondrogenic tumors:bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation chondroblastoma chondromyxoid fibroma enchondroma osteochondroma osteochondromyxoma periosteal chondroma subungual exostosis synovial & tenosynovial chondromatosis
Fibrogenic / fibrohistiocytic tumors:desmoplastic fibroma of bone fibrosarcoma of bone tenosynovial giant cell tumor
Vascular tumors:angiosarcoma epithelioid hemangioendothelioma epithelioid hemangioma of bone hemangioma pseudomyogenic hemangioendothelioma synovial hemangioma
Other tumors:adamantinoma Erdheim-Chester disease fibrous dysplasia infantile myofibromatosis juxta-articular myxoma Langerhans cell histiocytosis liposclerosing myxofibrous tumor lymphoma Mazabraud syndrome McCune-Albright syndrome metastases myositis ossificans osteofibrous dysplasia simple bone cyst systemic mastocytosis xanthoma
Bone & joint stains: AE1 / AE3 BCOR brachyury CAMTA1 CD1a CD68 CD99 CD138 CD163 ERG FOS (pending) FOSB (pending) GRM1 (pending) H3.3 G34W (H3F3A) H3K36M (pending) MDM2 MUM1 NKX2.2 (pending) S100 SATB2 SOX9

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Index (Alphabetical table of contents)
A-E:adamantinoma anatomy-bone & joints aneurysmal bone cyst angiosarcoma atypical cartilaginous tumor / chondrosarcoma, grade 1 avascular necrosis bacterial osteomyelitis (acute) BCOR::CCNB3 sarcoma benign notochordal cell tumor biopsy bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation bone formation and growth bone island brown tumor bursitis calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease cartilaginous rest chondroblastoma chondromyxoid fibroma chondrosarcoma (primary, secondary, periosteal) chordoma chronic osteomyelitis CIC rearranged sarcoma clear cell chondrosarcoma cystic meniscus dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma degenerative joint disease desmoplastic fibroma of bone disc material enchondroma epidermoid inclusion cyst epithelioid hemangioendothelioma epithelioid hemangioma of bone Erdheim-Chester disease Ewing sarcoma
F-N:fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva fibrosarcoma of bone fibrous dysplasia fracture ganglion cyst giant cell tumor of bone, malignant giant cell tumor of bone, NOS gout and gouty arthritis grossing, frozen section & features to report hemangioma high grade surface osteosarcoma histology-bone histology-joints implant related changes infantile myofibromatosis infarct juvenile rheumatoid arthritis juxta-articular myxoma Langerhans cell histiocytosis liposclerosing myxofibrous tumor low grade (central) osteosarcoma Lyme arthritis lymphoma Mazabraud syndrome McCune-Albright syndrome mesenchymal chondrosarcoma metastases myositis ossificans nonossifying fibroma
O-Z:osteoblastoma, NOS osteocartilaginous loose bodies osteochondritis dissecans osteochondroma osteochondromyxoma osteofibrous dysplasia osteogenesis imperfecta osteoid osteoma osteoma, NOS osteopetrosis osteoporosis osteosarcoma, NOS Paget disease parosteal osteosarcoma periosteal chondroma periosteal osteosarcoma pseudomyogenic hemangioendothelioma rheumatoid arthritis rickets / osteomalacia round cell sarcomas with EWSR1 / FUS::NFATC2 secondary osteosarcoma septic arthritis simple bone cyst skeletal dysplasias small cell osteosarcoma spondylodiskitis staging subungual exostosis synovial & tenosynovial chondromatosis synovial cysts synovial hemangioma synovial lipomatosis systemic lupus erythematosus systemic mastocytosis telangiectatic osteosarcoma tenosynovial giant cell tumor translocation negative (pending) tuberculous arthritis tuberculous osteomyelitis tumoral calcinosis undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma WHO classification xanthoma
Bone & joints books

Bocklage: 2014

Czerniak: 2015

Deyrup: 2015

Dodd: 2014

Folpe: 2022

Forest: 1998

Greenspan: 2015

Horvai: 2012

IARC: 2020

Jo: 2015

Klein: 2011

Montgomery: 2020

Nielsen: 2021

Nielsen: 2021

Picci: 2019

Santini-Araujo: 2020

Unni: 2009

Wei: 2013



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