Breast pathology

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Frederick C. Koerner

This new text examines common as well as more difficult diagnostic problems encountered in today's field of breast pathology. The first part of each major section consists of a presentation of general concepts and a detailed description of the pathologic characteristics of specific lesions. Then it focuses on the differences between commonly confused entities and emphasizes pathologic findings to help you obtain the most accurate diagnosis. More than 1,000 illustrations, most in full color, present the key aspects of various diseases in real-life detail. As an Expert Consult title, it includes online access to the complete text of the book, fully searchable, along with all of the images downloadable for your personal use, at www.expertconsult.com. Features anytime, anywhere online access to the complete text of the book, fully searchable, as well as all of the images downloadable for your personal use, at www.expertconsult.com. Depicts the key aspects of various diseases in real-life detail through more than 1,000 full-color illustrations. Focuses on the distinction between benign and malignant lesions, the most crucial challenge faced by the surgical pathologist. Places a special emphasis on diagnostic pitfalls and differential diagnosis, to equip you with practical guidance and solutions in reporting difficult or problematic specimens. Integrates clinical, gross, microscopic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic features of breast tumors and related lesions. Emphasizes clinicopathologic and radiologic features and correlations, to enable you to diagnose surgical specimens in light of relevant clinical data.

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Diane C. Farhi

Featuring more than 400 full-color illustrations, the book is a very complete survey of bone marrow diseases, including rare entities, and provides up-to-date information on constitutional and acquired disorders in both adults and children. This edition includes the latest information on hematologic and associated diseases, including many new disease descriptions, recent genetic and immunologic findings, and the current World Health Organization classification of hematolymphoid disorders.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands - their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century, he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making house calls with his colleague John Steele, amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. The islands reawaken Sacks' lifelong passion for botany - in particular, for the primitive cycad trees, whose existence dates back to the Paleozoic - and the cycads are the starting point for an intensely personal reflection on the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the genesis of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. Out of an unexpected journey, Sacks has woven an unforgettable narrative which immerses us in the romance of island life, and shares his own compelling vision of the complexities of being human.

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Michael Baum and Craig Henderson

Presents a collection of papers considered to be classic and are analyzed for their strengths and weaknesses. Covers historical perspectives, biostatistics, epidemiology, genetics, pathology, breast imaging, screening, surgical treatment, and more.