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Aaron: Clinical Pathology of Soft-Tissue Tumors, 2001, 778 pages. Details approaches to diagnosing and managing soft-tissue tumors, with sections on clinical evaluation and initial diagnosis, pathologic evaluation, and management of soft-tissue neoplasms. Reviews basic principles of biopsy, staging, diagnosis, and treatment, and describes advances in imaging evaluation.
Akerman: The Cytology of Soft Tissue Tumours
By Mans Akerman and Henryk A Domanski
2003 (1st ed), 116 pages, 78 illus, $134, complete information
An: Handbook of Histology Methods for Bone and Cartilage; 2003, 588 pages. The first comprehensive collection of all the major methods for studying the histology and histomorphometry of bone and cartilage, including techniques for bone labeling, bone sectioning, histological analysis, histomorphometric analysis, radiological examination, and contact radiography.
Athanasou: Colour Atlas of Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Pathology; 1999, 237 pages. Provides an illustrated guide to the diagnosis of bone, joint and soft tissue lesions. The photomicrographs in this atlas provide representative appearances of the (often highly variable) morphological features of pathological lesions occurring in bone, joint and soft tissue. review #1
Athanasou: Pathological Basis of Orthopaedic and Rheumatic Disease; 2001, 385 pages. Concise and comprehensive description of the pathological basis of diseases of bone, joint, and soft tissues. Provides surgical pathologists with an account of the morphological changes found in the various non-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases likely to be encountered.
Bikfalvi: Encyclopedic Reference of Vascular Biology & Pathology; 2000, 372 pages. Provides a synthesis of the whole field of vascular biology: from the latest advances in the study of the structure and function of blood vessels to recent investigations of their interaction with blood cells, with non-cellular constituents of the blood, or with cells of the neighboring tissue. The latest results from tumor angiogenesis to the latest advances in atherosclerosis research are discussed by leading experts in the field.
Brooks: Atlas of Soft Tissue Pathology; 2002, 270 pages.
Bullough: Orthopaedic Pathology; December 2003, 560 pages, 2009 illus., $199. This book is a lavishly illustrated account of the pathology of musculoskeletal disease. It provides a thorough discussion of the pathologic and clinical appearance of arthritic disorders, metabolic disturbances, soft tissue tumours, bone tumours, and rare entities. review #1; #2, #3
de Saint-Maur: Soft Tissue Tumors : Bilingual english/french Bilingue francais/anglais (CD-ROM Atlas of Pathology); 2002. This CD-ROM is intended to aid practitioners in establishing a diagnosis and in their own assessment of a tumor. The most important tumors and pseudo-tumors of soft tissue are illustrated by gross, microscopic and immunohistological studies. Almost all tumors described in classical treatises and in the WHO classification are presented, together with recently reported entities.
Fassbender: Pathology and Pathobiology of Rheumatic Diseases; 2002, 503 pages. Offers information on the 29 most important diseases belonging to the complex rheumatic diseases. Includes clinical features, marginal notes, a subject index, bibliography, and approximately 300 illustrations.
Fechner: Tumors of Bones and Joints (Atlas of Tumor Pathology, 3rd Series, Vol 8); 1993, 300 pages., 325 illus. The body of the text is devoted to thorough, up-to-date discussions of the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features of osseous neoplasms and synovial lesions. Major sections are devoted to neoplasms of osseous, cartilaginous, vascular, fibrous, giant cell, small cell, and hematopoietic differentiation.
Fletcher:
Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone; October
2004, 428 pages, $75. This WHO classification extensively
covers tumors of soft tissue and bone including inherited tumor syndromes. more,
review
#1 (Mod Path subscribers)
Kempson: Tumors of the Soft Tissues (Atlas of Tumor Pathology, 3rd Series, Vol 30); 2001, 507 pages, 696 illus. A practical approach to the diagnosis of soft tissue tumors as well as a comprehensive morphological description and differential diagnosis for each of the well-characterized tumor types.
Kilpatrick: Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Surgical Pathology; October 2003, 416 pages, 1050 illus. A new, practical, bench guide for the diagnosis of neoplastic and non-neoplastic bone, muscle, and soft-tissue disorders. The author uses histologic/cytologic approaches coupled with fine needle aspiration biopsy and clinicoradiologic correlations to create a unique, one-stop reference. review #1 (AJSP subscribers)
Layfield: Cytopathology of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors; 2002, 266 pages. Provides the practicing pathologist with a single reference for
describing and illustrating the cytologic features of musculoskeletal tumors. Using fine-needle aspiration (FNA), the approach of this work is encyclopedic: both relatively common and relatively rare lesions are depicted. review #1, #2, #3 (Mod Path subscribers)
Massaro: The Skeleton: Biochemical, Genetic and Molecular Interactions in Development and Homeostasis; February 2004, 400 pages. Discusses chondrogenesis and chondrocytes, the control of skeletal development, osteoblastic cell differentiation, bone induction and growth, bone mineralization, and skeletal dysmorphology.
Miettinen: Diagnostic Soft Tissue Pathology; 2002, 608 pages, 1100 illus., $205. Reviews soft tissue tumor diagnosis, classification, and biology. Presents an understanding of tumor pathology through advances in immunohistochemistry, genetics, and molecular genetics. Topics include specific genetic alterations, provisional diagnostic markers, treatment implications, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. review #1, #2, #3 (Mod Path subscribers)
Montgomery: Clinical Pathology of Soft-Tissue Tumors; 2001, 778 pages. Details approaches to diagnosing and managing soft-tissue tumors, with sections on clinical evaluation and initial diagnosis, pathologic evaluation, and management of soft-tissue neoplasms. reviews basic principles of biopsy, staging, diagnosis, and treatment, outlines histopathologic classification and evaluates immunohistochemistry and molecular markers as diagnostic tools.
Ortner: Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains; 2002 (2nd edition), 645 pages, 1100 illus. There is much that ancient skeletal remains can reveal to the modern pathologist about the skeletal manifestations of diseases that are rarely encountered in modern medical practice. This book provides essential text and materials on bone pathology, which will improve the diagnostic ability of those interested in human dry bone pathology.
Pollock: American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology: Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Book with CD-ROM); 2001, 428 pages, $105. Discusses diagnosis and staging, surgical approaches, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and pediatric sarcomas. Topics include epidemiology, inherited syndromes, biopsy and surgical techniques, external beam irradiation, brachytherapy, intraoperative radiation therapy, neoadjuvant therapy, adjuvant therapy, regional perfusion, pain syndromes, and rehabilitation.
Rehder:
Skeletal Dysplasias and Malformation
By Helga Rehder
2008 (1st ed)
Sangueza: Pathology of Vascular Skin Lesions: Clinicopathological Correlations; 2003, 400 pages; “a comprehensive review of all vascular proliferations involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Includes classification and nomenclature of vascular neoplasms, benign proliferations, and malignant vascular proliferations.” review #1, #2 (Mod Path subscribers)
Singh: Bone Metastasis and Molecular Mechanisms: Pathophysiology; March 2004, 317 pages. $138. The book is a comprehensive review to the pathophysiology and mechanisms of bone metastasis. The chapters begin highlighting various models of breast cancer metastasis, quantitation aspects of bone metastasis, comparative morphometic techniques to study bone metastatis, microenvironment and associated pathophysiologies of bone metastasis, metastasis in the bone marrow environment, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis.
Singh: Bone Metastasis: Experimental and Clinical Therapeutics
By Gurmit Singh and Shafaat A. Rabbani
2005 (1st ed), 344 pages, $145 list
This volume elucidates for all those involved-- whether in research or clinical treatment of bone-seeking cancers-- the biological processes and therapeutic advances that are already generating significant improvement in the cancer clinic.
Unni: Tumors of the Bones and Joints (AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology, Series IV, Vol 2)
By K Krishnan Unni, Carrie Y Inwards, Julia A Bridge, Lars-Gunnar Kindblom and Lester E Wold
2006, 399 pages, 840 illus, $125 list
Presents new molecular findings which add to our understanding of tumor pathogenesis and may be useful diagnostically. This information is particularly relevant to bone tumors and tumor-like lesions.
Vigorita: Orthopaedic Pathology; 1999, 718 pages. Covers skeletal and extraskeletal calcification and ossification syndromes; metabolic bone disease; osteomyelitis; bone cysts, giant-cell tumor, giant-cell reparative granuloma; periosteum; fibrous lesions; bone tumors; cartilage tumors; vascular and other mesenchymal tumors/lesions; bone manifestations of hematologic disorders and small-cell tumors; metastatic bone disease; osteonecrosis; joint disorders; implant pathology; and soft-tissue pathology. review #1 (Mod Path subscribers)
Weiss:
Enzinger and Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors
By Sharon W Weiss and John R Goldblum
2007 (5th ed), 1620 pages, 1950 illus, $299 list
No other textbook matches its scope and depth of coverage in this complex and challenging area of surgical pathology, and no other text contains as much practical information on differential diagnosis. Throughout, microscopic findings are correlated with the latest developments in molecular biology, cytogenetics, and immunohistochemistry to provide you with a comprehensive and integrated approach to evaluation and diagnosis.
Wold: Atlas of Orthopedic
Pathology: with CD-ROM
By Lester E Wold, K Krishnan Unni, Franklin H Sim and Murali Sundaram
2008 (3rd ed), 560 pages, $219 list
This authoritative resource illustrates and discusses the pathologic, radiographic, and differential diagnostic aspects and clinicopathological correlations for a full range of neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions of the bones and joints. A bulleted, outline format makes reference quick and easy, and a bonus CD-ROM, new to this edition, offers all of the books illustrations in electronic format.
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