This chapter deals with a variety of non-neoplastic blood-related disorders that have a major influence on imaging of the skeletal system. Disorders of Red Cells In late fetal life and infancy, the entire bone marrow is utilised for red blood…
Chapters 65 and 66 deal with various haematological conditions, both neoplastic and non-neoplastic, that may be manifest on imaging of the skeletal system. The recently updated 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of myeloproliferative neoplasms is extremely complex and includes…
General Characteristics of Bone Tumours Bone tumours are currently classified according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of 2013 as being benign, intermediate or malignant; intermediate lesions are those that are either locally aggressive but do not metastasise (e.g.…