Meet the editor

Hiran Amarasekera is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Currently practicing in Sri Lanka. After obtaining the MBBS from Kasturba medical college, Manipal, Inda, he completed the MS in Surgical sciences from the University of Colombo. He obtained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS Ed) and board certification in 2003. His special interests are in the areas of young adult hip and knee problems,

sports injuries, lower limb arthroplasty, and keyhole joint surgery, and revision arthroplasty. His present research is focused on non-surgical and minimally invasive alternative treatment for osteoarthritis. He worked and trained in many countries for over twenty including India, Sri Lanka, Australia, United States, and the UK. As a keen researcher, he has completed an MPhil from the University of Warwick and completed a research fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles, (UCLA). Presently, he works as a medical educator, as an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Kelaniya and Kothalawela Defense University in Sri Lanka. He is an examiner of medical students both in Sri Lanka and the UK and a course provider for Trauma courses run by the college of surgeons and was elected a fellow of Sri Lanka College of surgeons in 2013. Dr. Amarasekera is the editor of the Journal of Sri Lanka Orthopaedic association and council member. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) e and Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ) and a member of the editorial board of the Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery (SLJS). He has over 50 international publications, presentations and several book chapters to his credit and has reviewed over 100 papers for journals of BJJ and SLJS. After joining IntechOpen in 2012 he authored three book chapters and edited several open access books with them.

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Luís Costa*

Osteosarcoma

*by Recep Öztürk*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Bone Tumours **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 55**

**Chapter 4 73**

**Chapter 5 87**

Osteoarthritis **97**

**Chapter 6 99**

**Chapter 7 107**

Bone Cancer Pain, Mechanism and Treatment

Imaging of Pediatric Benign Bone Tumors *by Jignesh Shah and Ankita Chauhan*

Medical Therapy of Giant Cell Tumor of Bone

*by Raquel Lopes-Brás, Isabel Fernandes, Sandra Casimiro* 

*by Gottardo Bianchi, Leticia Gaiero, Nicolas Casales,* 

Current Therapeutic Approaches for Osteosarcoma

Non-Surgical Regional Therapy for Osteoarthritis: An Update

*by Harold Wilson-Morkeh and Charles Mackworth-Young*

*Claudio Silveri and Ana C. Belzarena*

Management of Early Osteoarthritis

*by Ahmed Mostafa Kotb Aziz*

and Review of the Literature

*by Sonny Hermanus Johannes Sliepen*
