BookWenxin Zheng, Oluwole Fadare, Charles Matthew Quick, Danhua Shen, Donghui Guo, editors.
Summary: This fully indexed, 2-volume book covers all aspects of gynecologic and obstetric pathology. It focuses on practical issues in each chapter by demonstrating pitfalls of diagnosis in addition to general criteria needed for each disease entity. As a reference book on gynecologic and obstetric pathology, it is targeted for practicing pathologists, pathology residents, gynecologic pathology and oncology fellows, clinicians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers and is intended for use as a bench or scope side reference, resource for studying for board examinations or to satisfy any interest in certain topics within the field of gynecologic pathology. Volume 2 contains 17 chapters covering disease entities of the uterine myometrium, ovary, fallopian tube, peritoneum, placenta, gestational trophoblastic diseases, and gynecology related cytology. It covers all the recognized recent advances within the field. Key diagnostic and differential diagnosis related points are illustrated in numerous tables. In addition, plenty of high quality pictures are presented for the vast majority of entities to facilitate both learning and teaching.
Contents:
Lesions of fallopian tube
Benign diseases of ovary
Lesions of peritoneum and broad ligament
Ovarian epithelial carcinogenesis
Ovarian serous tumors
Ovarian endometrioid and clear cell tumors
Ovarian mucinous, transitional cell and other types of tumors
Treatment principals for ovarian epithelial cancers
Ovarian germ cell tumors
Ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors
Ovarian metastatic cancers
Endometriosis
Complications of early pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic diseases
Gynecologic cytology
Placenta pathology
Pregnancy associated diseases
Application of molecular biology in gynecologic pathology
Application of immunohistochemistry in gynecologic pathology.