Preface

Management of bone tumors and osteoarthritis has evolved rapidly over the past years. The diagnostic capabilities, treatment modalities, treatment preferences, timing of treatment, and approach to managing these conditions have changed over the years.

This book contains two main sections. The first section contains chapters on recent advances in bone tumours and the second section contains chapters on the latest findings in osteoarthritis and its treatment.

Chapters are organised in a systematic way so the reader can review and understand the basic to advanced concepts of the subject. All chapters are original work contributed by an expert panel of authors and the work is peer-reviewed and edited accordingly.

The first section contains 5 chapters dedicated to bone tumours that discuss the recent advances and current management in bone cancer pain, imaging of paediatric benign bone tumours, medical therapy for giant cell tumours, osteosarcoma and its modern management.

The second section is dedicated to osteoarthritis where the authors discuss the timely topics of initial management, modern non-surgical treatment options and the role of bilateral joint replacements in a single sitting when treating osteoarthritis.

 The book in printed format will be an essential reference to store in all medical libraries, while the electronic format in the open-access concept is available free of charge for the reader to read online or download, either the book in whole or as an individual chapter.

Sincere and many thanks to all the authors' contributors and researchers who contributed to this book and made this project a success, all the staff at Intech Open publishing including the author service manager, Jasna Bozic, for the effort put into this project, and as always to my wife Anuji and daughter Nuwanji, for supporting me through all my research work and helping with high tech computer editing.

> **Hiran Amarasekera**  MBBS(Manipal), MS (Colombo), FRCS(Ed), FCSSL, MPhil (Warwick), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Senior Lecturer (Hon) In Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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Section 1

Bone Tumours
