Atlas of Urinary Cytopathology - With Histopathologic Correlations
No. Klas
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616.6/Ali/A
Pengarang
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Syed Z. Ali, MD
Penerbit
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Demos Medical Publishing, LLC., United States of America, 2010
Kolasi
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232 p.: tab. ; fig. ; bibl. ; ind.
Digital Copy
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Pinjaman Aktif
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0
Synopsis
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Among the more diagnostically challenging human
cancers is that aff ecting the bladder, not because
the cytologic changes are so diffi cult to appreciate,
but because the implications of those changes are
so misunderstood by pathologists and urologists.
Leopold Koss expresses that misunderstanding in
the fi fth edition of his seminal work, Diagnostic
Cytology and its Histopathologic Bases. “Th e problem
with cytology of the urinary tract is the lack of basic
understanding of the accomplishments and limita-
tions of the method and of the pathologic processes
accounting for it.” [p. 739]
While this volume cannot begin to match Koss’s
expansive treatise, the authors hope by the sheer
number of illustrations in this atlas to clear some
of the misunderstandings of this cancer that affl icts
some 70,000 new patients per year and kills another
14,000 in the United States. A noteworthy statistic:
more that 500,000 people in the US are survivors
of this cancer!
In addition to the skills of the authors, this
volume would not have been possible without
the dedicated eff orts of Frances Burroughs, SCT
(ASCP), who caringly selected the cytologic exam-
ples from the extensive archives of the John K. Frost
Cytopathology Laboratory at Th e Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Th e authors hope that this volume will serve as a
guide to pathologists in selecting appropriate samples
when our diagnostic menu is amplifi ed by molecular
and genetic markers of prediction and prognosis for
those patients unfortunately affl icted with urothelial
carcinoma. Until then, may it continue to guide
those involved in traditional morphologic diagnosis
of urothelial cancer and other malignancies of the
bladder and upper urinary tracts.
