Atlas of Lymph Node Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach / Edition 1

by Amy S. Duffield MD, Joo Y. Song MD, Girish Venkataraman MD

Overview

Closely mirroring the daily sign-out process, Atlas of Lymph Node Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach is a highly illustrated, efficient guide to accurate diagnosis. This practical reference uses a proven, pattern-based approach to clearly explain how to interpret challenging cases by highlighting red flags in the clinical chart and locating hidden clues in the slides. Useful as a daily “scope-side guide,” it features numerous clinical and educational features that help you find pertinent information, reach a correct diagnosis, and assemble a thorough and streamlined pathology report.

• More than 1,500 high-quality photomicrographs depict reactive and neoplastic processes involving lymph nodes, capturing the full spectrum of morphologic changes associated with common abnormalities, including relatively rare conditions. Captions include a morphologic description, highlighting subtle features and key diagnostic considerations.
• Practical tools throughout the text include:
  • Tables that emphasize salient clinicopathologic features, management implications, and therapeutic options
  • Discussions of how and when to incorporate immunohistochemical and special stains, as well as the utilization of flow cytometry and molecular tools
  • Checklists for key elements of the diagnostic approach and sample notes for inclusion in pathology reports
  • Relevant endoscopic images, photographs of select gross specimens, and medical figures
  • Brief reviews of normal histology that provide contrast to succeeding patterns
  • “Pearls and Pitfalls” and “Near Misses” sections with lessons from real-life sign-out experience            
  • “Frequently Asked Questions” sections that discuss common diagnostic dilemmas   
  • “Sample Note” sections that offer a template of how to synthesize complicated or especially challenging topics
  • Quizzes in every chapter that provide experience with high-yield, board-style teaching topics  

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496375544
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	12/31/2020
Edition description:	First
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Anna B Owczarczyk, MD, PHD (University of Michigan Medical School)
Description: This book provides a practical, efficient, pattern-based approach to lymph node evaluation.
Purpose: The book's purpose is to help trainees approach both normal and abnormal findings in a lymph node based on the affected functional compartment. The authors have reached their stated goals.
Audience: This book is thoughtfully designed specifically for pathology trainees.
Features: Chapter 1 includes a comprehensive introduction to the normal lymph node structure, with sub-sections describing how specimen preparation (i.e., fixation time) and clinical context (i.e., anatomic site) can influence the morphology. The first chapter also briefly touches on how ancillary studies may be helpful to support or confirm histological impressions. The remaining chapters address key nodal compartments (capsule, sinuses, cortex, paracortex) or patterns of effacement (i.e., obliterated nodular patterns, obliterated nodal architecture, and necrosis) in the context of benign and pathological processes. Additionally, the book includes a chapter addressing the essential "pro tips" of immunohistochemical interpretation and case write-up. Finally, before the comprehensive index, there is a self-assessment section (with answers) comprised of approximately five questions per chapter. Each chapter includes features that help trainees systematically evaluate a lymph node, including checklists, tables, "pearls and pitfalls" (to provide practical sign-out lessons that emphasis crucial diagnostic clues, mimics, or hazards), "FAQ" (asked by both trainees and non-hematopathologists), "key features" (summarizing crucial diagnostic elements), "sample notes" for rare or complex diagnoses, and "near misses" (to alert the readers to close calls and provide advice for avoiding them). Finally, references for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. More than 1,500 professional-grade photomicrographs grace the pages, depicting a wide breadth of reactive and neoplastic lymph node processes, including "bread and butter" and rarer conditions alike.
Assessment: This book is exceptionally well organized, visually appealing, and very easy to read. It would make an excellent sign-out resource or boards study tool for pathology trainees at all levels. While other hematopathology textbooks are organized by diagnostic entity, this book is uniquely organized by lymph node compartment. In just under 300 pages, the authors have made the evaluation and sign-out of lymph node cases less daunting and quite enjoyable!

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