G.G.Delaini • T. Skrˇicˇka • G. Colucci Editors 2009 From Genetics to Treatment and Follow-up The malignant potential and familial association of polyps in the intestine haven been recognized since the 19th century. There has been a huge amount of subsequent work classifying polyps, identifying polyposis syndromes, and establishing surveillance programs for cancer prevention.
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Norman Beck 2009 Many years’ experience teaching undergraduates and postgraduates in both hematology and internal medicine and daily consultation with colleagues both in hospital and private clinical practice have brought home very clearly the problems experienced by most students (and practitioners) in the approach to hematological problems and the interpretation of hematology reports.
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Editors Linda M. Ernst Eduardo D. Ruchelli, Dale S. Huff 2011 The impetus for the writing of this book came largely from the many students and residents in pathology who spent time on the perinatal autopsy service and frequently asked us what reference they could turn to for a review of normal fetal histology.
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Alan H.B. Wu • Kiang-Teck J. Yeo Editors 2011 Implementation in the Clinical Laboratory The “personalization” of therapeutics promises to deliver a more efficacious and cost-effective approach towards treating patients with chronic diseases. For many medications, the pharmaceutical industry’s objective of “one drug fits all individuals” has proven to be incorrect.
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Helen Liapis • Hanlin L. Wang (Editors) 2011 Solid organ transplantation is now the treatment of choice for end-stage kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, and lung diseases and increasingly so for intestinal disease. Experimental transplantation in animals provided the impetus for transplantation in humans, first with the kidney [1–3]. A brief account of successful human “experiments” in the time frame […]
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Satdarshan P. S. Monga Editor 2011 Molecular Pathology of Liver Diseases is the fifth volume in the Molecular Pathology Library Series by Springer. Owing to the improved understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of diseases, academic medicine is undergoing an evolution. Novel molecular tests not only aid in a disease diagnosis, but also can be extrapolated for […]
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Fan Lin • Jeffrey Prichard Editors 2011 Over the past 20 years, four key discoveries can be viewed as the cornerstones in the continuing evolution of immunohistochemistry (IHC). They include (1) the development of monoclonal antibodies, significantly increasing diagnostic specificity; (2) the introduction of heat-induced and proteolytic enzyme antigen retrieval methods, providing a foundation for the utility of IHC […]
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Giorgio Stanta (Editor) 2011 These guidelines are devoted to disseminate molecular methods that can be used to analyze DNA, RNA, and proteins in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. We have called them guidelines because this is the first method book that is entirely dedicated to archive tissues.
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Edited by Rhonda K. Yantiss 2011 Despite many recent advances in ancillary techniques, intraoperative pathology consultation remains one of the most diagnostically and technically challenging areas of surgical pathology.
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Richard A. Prayson Karl M. Napekoski 2011 Intraoperative pathology consultation is a challenging area of Surgical Pathology. It demands a good understanding of the diagnostic considerations, an awareness of the pitfalls associated with intraoperative consultation and an understanding of the clinical implications of diagnoses made in that arena.
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