Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors: Clinical Features, Imaging, Pathology and Treatment. 2nd ed.

Mario Campanacci. New York: Springer; 1999. 1319 pages. $379.00. The second edition of this textbook, which deals with tumors of the musculoskeletal system, is a marked improvement over the first edition. The first edition was a translation from an Italian text, and it suffered as a result. The current edition was written directly in English. The text represents the life’s work of one of the world’s most prolific tumor surgeons, Mario Campanacci, who included clinical material derived from more than 20,000 patients treated at the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna. Professor Campanacci was …