BookSami Shousha, editor.
Summary: This book covers practical diagnostic issues in breast pathology, with special emphasis on areas which pose diagnostic difficulties. These include dealing with the gross specimens derived from patients treated with conservative surgery and those who had neo-adjuvant therapy before surgery. It also discusses how to deal with axillary lymph nodes, proliferative breast lesions, including DCIS, and problematic core biopsies, as well as fibro-epithelial, spindle cell, lobular, mucinous, metaplastic and papillary lesions, molecular classification of breast cancers, breast lesions in male patients and breast immunohistochemistry. There is a focus on unusual benign and malignant breast lesions and a large number of high-quality images help the reader diagnose difficult cases. Breast Pathology: Problematic Issues is aimed at histopathology consultants and senior trainees who deal with breast pathology.
Contents:
Dealing with the gross specimen
Handling Neo-Adjuvant therapy Specimens
Proliferative Breast Lesions
Problematic Core Biopsies
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
Lobular neoplasia
Grading of invasive carcinoma
Fibroepithelial Lesions
Mucinous Lesions of the breast and expression of WT1
Spindle cell lesions
Papillary carcinomas
Metaplastic breast carcinomas
Metastatic lesions in the breast
Axillary Lymph node biopsies
A Practical Approach to the use of Immunohistochemistry in the Diagnosis and Management of Breast Disease
Molecular classification and testing of breast carcinoma
Uncommon benign breast lesions
Uncommon malignant lesions
Male breast lesions.