Diagnostic Pathology: Thoracic. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Diagnostic Pathology: Thoracic

This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering all areas of thoracic pathology, it incorporates the most recent clinical, pathologic, and molecular knowledge in this challenging field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today's practice. Richly illustrated and easy to use, the third edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Thoracic is a one-stop reference for accurate, rapid, and complete pathology reports-ideal as a day-to-day reference or as a reliable training resource.

• Provides a clear framework for a better understanding of the clinical and histopathologic appearances of pulmonary, pleural, and mediastinal entities

• Features an updated chapter on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pneumonia with current knowledge, statistics, and pathophysiology on COVID-19, including new images that encompass the radiology, gross pathology, and histopathology of the disease

• Includes updated criteria, terminology, and classifications for a wide range of tumors from the 2021 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart, reflecting changes to currently used terminologies for adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumors, mesothelioma, soft tissue tumors, benign tumors, and more

• Covers the recent explosion of molecular genetic information, including new Molecular Pathology sections with new information on the genetic underpinnings of diseases

• Specifies genetic mutation types associated with each tumor and covers numerous types of molecular tests, including next-generation sequencing studies and how the specific genetic alterations are used to differentiate disease and aid in diagnosis

• Features over 3,900 high-quality images, including histologic images, gross pathology images, radiologic images, and full-color illustrations as well as more than 750 additional online-only images to help practicing and in-training pathologists reach a confident diagnosis

• Contains multiple recent consensus clinical practice guidelines for thoracic disease diagnosis, including those for molecular genetic testing and predictive biomarker testing from the College of American Pathologists, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and the Association for Molecular Pathology

• Employs consistently templated chapters, bulleted content, key facts, and annotated images for quick, expert reference at the point of care

• Includes the enhanced eBook version, which allows you to search all text, figures, and references on a variety of devices

Dr. Suster received his medical doctorate from the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, followed by pathology residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. This was followed by a Selective Pathology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he focused on thoracic and bone and soft tissue pathology. He then completed a second fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, New York. Dr. Suster is board certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Molecular Genetic Pathology.

Dr. Suster is the author of more than 50 original peer-reviewed manuscripts as well as 7 book chapters. He also is the coauthor of 2 books on thoracic pathology. His work is centered mainly in the field of thoracic and bone and soft tissue pathology. He has also contributed to the literature in areas of skin tumors, thyroid pathology, breast pathology, gynecological pathology, and others. He has had the opportunity to present locoregional as well as international lectures primarily on the topics of thoracic and bone and soft tissue pathology, and is currently working on multiple projects related to those fields. He currently serves as the associate residency program director and manages the pulmonary and bone and soft tissue services at Rutgers University Hospital.

Dr. Meno-Kenudsen is the Director, Pulmonary Pathology and a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. Dr. Mino-Kenudson is board-certified in anatomic pathology and signs out specimens from the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, biliary tree, lung and pleura. She also serves as a frozen section pathologist by reviewing intra-operative consultation specimens and communicating with surgeons. Her clinical interests include the classification and personalized medicine in the field of lung cancer, and malignant and premalignant lesions of the pancreas, especially intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN).

Dr. Suster is a Professor and Chairman Emiritus, Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a senior faculty member in the division of Anatomic Pathology. He serves as director of bone and soft tissue pathology and as a member of the thoracic and endocrine pathology subspecialty services. Dr. Suster was recently named in U.S. News & World Report's Top Doctors List for 2012-2013 and is among the top 1 % of Pathologists in the nation. Dr. Suster has also ranked for the past 5 years in Castle Connolly's "America's Top Doctors" and "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", as well as being listed in" Who's who in America."