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| By: Peter Greaves ISBN: 0444527710 Publisher: Elsevier Science Release Date: 23 March, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 157212 | ||
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| By: Christopher D. M. Fletcher ISBN: 0443074348 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Release Date: 05 April, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 595567 | I was a little hesitant spending $400 of my $500 book fund allowed per year on this updated version of Fletcher. I have been using the departmental copy of the previous edition of this book so far and I can only say that this has been the best and most concise reference book for tumor pathology. If you are looking to buy just a single book to get by in pathology, this is not the best choice... just go for Silverberg or Rosai. I am impressed at how updated this new edition is. This will save me a lot of time going to read journal articles for updated classification schema and new variants of tumors etc. All in all, a great book to buy for a PGY-4 pathology resident and of course, for practicing pathologists. That apart, the page design and layout within is very rich and colorful..plus..it looks great on my home bookshelf getting a furtive glance from every visitor at home..What more can you ask? This is a beautiful new (third) edition of this text, and improvements abound from its predecessor (which I also liked). The images are better in many chapters. The tables are well organized. As a general pathologist, I've found myself using this general text more and more. I can often get as much information as I need without turning to a subspecialty text. Very nice job. | |
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| By: Ronald W Dudek ISBN: 0781769590 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 144324 | This book is good, because it has integrated different subjects, such as, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, etc. However, some of the high yield books including this one are becoming more like the "board review series", they are becoming too detailed. People won't sue them if those books miss a few details, people are reading this book and other high yield because they want to get the fundamental, basic idea. They don't want to read all the details. <br /> <br />There are some mistakes and problems. I shall list them here, I am sure that the author or the publisher will read this. <br /> <br />1. on page 281, it explains why some women have pink nipples, it has "in children and blonde individuals." The word blonde is certainly not correct. For one thing, there are women who dye their hair to blond, that doesn't mean that their nipples will become pink. Some white women don't have light skin while some Asians and Hispanics do have light skin. So the proper word should be light skinned individuals. <br /> <br />2. Chapter 27: male reproductive system, on page 296, it actually included "female urethra" which should be put into the urinary system. <br /> <br />3. some of the chapters are definitely too long. For example, urinary system starts at page 211, ends at page 241. For "proximal convoluted tubule," it has 12 important points, that is just too much. Can the author himself recite those 12 points himself? <br /> <br />4. The diagnosis for some of the case study are too long. For example, on page 209, the diagnosis is one single paragraph on one and half pages. The author should separate the answer into several paragraphs to make it a little easy to read. | |
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| By: R. C. Curran, J. Crocker, R.C. Curran ISBN: 0192632205 Publisher: A Harvey Miller Publication Release Date: 15 April, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 304013 | Though this book is certainly useful, as a second year medical student I've found it to cover certain topics with excessive detail, and to complete skip others. For example, there's not a single blood smear in the book, which I thought was a major oversight. I found this book to be a great review source for slide review for lab exams. Each slide shows a very typical example of a pathological condition and comes with an explanation of the key features. It is a great way to focus your studies for exams or prepare for slide presentations if your class requires them. | |
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| By: Alan Stevens, James S. Lowe, Barbara Young ISBN: 0443070016 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Release Date: 15 October, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 275920 | This book is what saved my life in the pathology, microbiology and immunology course at my med school. The book put all the histopathology which was very dense and made unnecessarily complicated by the lecturers and the Robbins PBOD book in a very logical way. It has great micrographs with thorough text accompanying them and is a must have. If you agree that seeing is believing, then this book is for you. Microscopic images with accompanying texts illustrate important concepts and salient features of common diseases. The language is clear and facts are presented concisely. I particularly loved the part on general pathology : it contains one of the most beautifully written summaries of the recurring themes in pathology...i.e. cell injury, necrosis, adative response, neoplasia, inflammation, thrombosis etc. Read, re-read and re-read the first few chapters of this book, so that those concepts get stuck in your brain. Once that's mastered, you'll have little difficulty facing systems pathology.<br>Unfortuantely, no book is perfect... this one has no gross/macro pictures, and the texts while perfectly summarised, are not enough to get you thru the boards or other path exams. If you're looking for uncommon or esoteric stuff, search elsewhere. <br>Nevertheless, I would call this the perfect primer of pathology, and an essential companion to the bigger textbooks.<br>Buy it if you really want to UNDERSTAND and APPRECIATE pathology. | |
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| By: David E Elder, Rosalie Elenitsas, Bernett L Johnson, George F Murphy ISBN: 0781737427 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 October, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 606705 | The main source of information for dermatopathology in the United States. Excellent for the dermatology resident and dermatopathology fellow. Really fantastic book which provides very valuable information, and it fulfil every expectations for skin pathology. | |
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| By: Ivan Damjanov, Peter A. McCue, Matthew Chansky ISBN: 0683023349 Publisher: Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 15 January, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 510028 | ||
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| By: Paul.J Tadrous ISBN: 0470519037 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Release Date: 14 March, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 675298 | ||
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| By: George Burkitt, Paul R. Wheater, H. George Burkitt ISBN: 0443050880 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Release Date: July, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 241311 | When you are knee deep in slides and your eyes are too tired to look through your microscope, Wheater's Atlas will be your lifeboat. Use it and learn all you need to know. I can't say enough good things about this book. Viva Wheater! | |
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| By: Derek C. Allen ISBN: 1852339608 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 21 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 187196 | The Histopathology Reporting "Guidelines" by Derek C. Allen combines the sixth edition of the TNM classification with a very condensed "memory-aid" for the most common types of Surgical Malignancies. <br />The latter is the main difference from the "AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas," while the physical format of the book is similarly practical, most schematic drawings are the same. <br />In contrast to other "desk references" used in daily surgical pathology practice (eg. Lester's Manual of Surgical Pathology), Allen's book provides essential bullet points by organ/site and explains, when necessary, why these are pertinent for the final report (by means of staging, treatment, and prognosis). <br />The book includes the differential diagnosis and variants (by site) as well as an algorithm for immunostaining. The 470 pages are divided into an average of 15 pages per organ/site which can be easily managed during the work-up of a case or preview time. <br />Non-neoplastic disease is not included in the book(let), even though correct and complete histopathology reporting is also necessary in benign diseases. Therefore this book alone cannot be used as the single resource at the microscope. This is however, not a problem, as the book is not meant to do so, and appears well rounded, focused and "complete". <br />The paper quality is worth the price (by the way). <br /> <br />If you write a book on histopathology reporting and use the word "cancer" in the subtitle, pathologists cringe. However this adds irony.... <br /> <br />If you are looking for a quick read on surgical malignancy, want to know how a report should be structured, and need a handy reference beside your scope for quick look-up, you need this book. <br /> <br /> | |
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