Breast

This book covers all methods of breast disease diagnosis and is illustrated with more than 300 color photomicrographs.

Thomas J. Lawton (Author)

9780521881593, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 April 2009

256 pages, 317 colour illus. 2 tables
28.7 x 22 x 1.9 cm, 1.08 kg

Breast pathology is arguably considered the most challenging and controversial area of diagnostic pathology. Many gradations of normal, pre-cancerous, and cancerous conditions are often indistinguishable, making a clear-cut diagnosis very difficult and often a cause for intense debate. This latest book in the Cambridge Illustrated Surgical Pathology series comprehensively covers all methods utilized by pathologists to accurately diagnose diseases affecting the breast. Malignant tumors are the predominant focus, but a full spectrum of inflammatory disorders and hyperplasias is also covered in detail, and the book uniquely shows the progression of disease states from incipient to advanced. Findings are diagnosed not only through the light microscope but also through genetic, molecular, and immunologic modalities; the text additionally includes the interpretation of cytologic specimens as an important diagnostic modality in breast pathology. The book is highly illustrated, with more than 300 color photomicrographs, and accompanied by a CD-ROM of all images.

1. Normal histology and metaplasias
2. Reactive and inflammatory lesions
3. Adenosis, sclerosing lesions, and other miscellaneous benign entities
4. Fibroepithelial lesions
5. Nipple lesions
6. Papillary lesions
7. Benign stromal lesions
8. Lobular neoplasia
9. Ductal neoplasia
10. Invasive carcinoma, no special type
11. Invasive carcinoma, special types
12. Metaplastic carcinoma and sacroma
13. Cytology of the breast.

Subject Areas: Cytopathology [MMFC], Pathology [MMF]