William C. Faquin Celeste N. Powers 2008 Salivary gland neoplasms display a striking range of morphologic diversity that can confound cytologic as well as histologic interpretation. The overlapping cytologic features, the lack of markers to accurately distinguish various tumors, and the overemphasized FNA-induced histologic changes have fostered uncertainty in the role of FNA in the management of salivary gland lesions.
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Editors Bradley J. Adams John E. Byrd 2008 Public fascination with the rapid developments of forensic science in recent years has led to greater expectations of success in the field of human identification. This relates to field recovery, laboratory analysis, and analytical findings.
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Edited by LIANG CHENG DAVID Y. ZHANG 2008 We have had the opportunity to witness both the beginning and the subsequent growth of an exciting specialty that combines both pathology and medical genetics, a field commonly referred to as molecular genetic pathology. The birth of this specialty took place in 1988 when Kari Mullis developed a new DNA amplification technology […]
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Alexander J. Howie 2008 My aim was to write a short, clear, useful, and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Particular parts of this aim were to show how a diagnosis can be reached, and what information taken from a specimen is clinically significant and helpful.
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Vernard Irvine Adams Author 2008 Guidelines for Reports by Autopsy Pathologists is intended to help the autopsy pathologist produce reports that communicate well. Having evolved from a collection of faculty critiques of the autopsy reports, summary and opinion reports, scene reports, and death certificates produced by residents in anatomic pathology and fellows in forensic pathology, the book emphasizes topics […]
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Guy N. Rutty Editor 2008 Topical developments, trends and advances Autopsy practice continues to change and evolve. In fact, since this series started the investigation of the dead has possibly changed more than in any part of its development through the centuries. For the first time we find ourselves in an era when not only the very necessity […]
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Editor Joseph F. Tomashefski 2008 Neoplastic Lung Disease It is with a great sense of good fortune, humility, and responsibility that we, the editors, have undertaken the task of updating Dail and Hammar’s Pulmonary Pathology, one of the great modern textbooks not only in the field of lung pathology but also in the wider arena of general pathology […]
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Abraham Fisher l Maurizio Memo l Fabrizio Stocchi l Israel Hanin Editors 2008 Insights, Progress, and Perspectives The 7th International Congress on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease took place during March 9–13, 2005 high in the hills of Sorrento, Italy, overlooking the splendid blue Mediterranean Sea with Mt. Vesuvius in the foreground. This event continues to earn its growing […]
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R. K. Chhem · D. R. Brothwell 2008 This book arose from chance meetings and discussion between the two of us, one a radiologist and anthropologist (RC), the other a bioarchaeologist and paleopathologist (DB). The former expressed his interest in developing a scientific field that combined radiology with anthropology, especially bioarchaeology and paleopathology.
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B. Jeremić ∙ S. Pitz (Eds.) 2008 As an extremely rare and benign disease with virtually no lethal outcomes, optic nerve sheath meningioma has traditionally been treated worldwide with different approaches, and without a consensus on both how to diagnose and treat it. With only occasional reports in the literature, and with those reports being predominantly single-institutional experiences […]
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