19 June 2008
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent on 25 April 2008. We have changed our logo, to emphasize that our website is focused on helping you “Find Pathology Information Fast”.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing business advertisers: Covance (drug development services), PathSync (computer systems) and Photodyne Technologies (Macro Photography Systems).
Archive of past monthly website news emails:
Books: We list all new books of interest to Pathologists and Laboratory personnel, sorted by specialty, author and New Books. Books are usually added weekly. To receive a monthly email listing new books added to our Books pages, email NatPernick@Hotmail.com with “subscribe to new books email” in the subject line. There is no charge. New books recently added to our Books pages include:
Armitage: Atlas of Clinical Hematology
By James Armitage
2008 (2nd ed), 226 pages, 726 illus, $129 list
Hematology is a particularly visual science. It has always been possible to look at blood cells and their progenitors in the bone marrow with comparative ease. The Atlas of Clinical Hematology describes the exciting advances occurring in hematology and presents them in an attractive and useable way.
DeMay: Practical Principles of
Cytopathology
By Richard M DeMay
2007 (1st ed), 420 pages, 1382 images, $160 list
Since 1969, 'Practical Principals of Cytopathology' has served surgical pathologists as a ready reference easily carried to a colleague's office. The newly updated version provides encyclopedic coverage that the diagnostician needs to have at hand.
Fenoglio-Preiser: Gastrointestinal
Pathology: An Atlas and Text
By Cecilia M Fenoglio-Preiser, Amy E Noffsinger,
Grant N Stemmermann, Patrick E Lantz and Peter G Isaacson
2007 (3rd ed), 1312 pages, 3095 illus, $310 list
This full-color text/atlas is a comprehensive reference on GI pathology in adults and pediatric patients. The book integrates pathologic analyses of specimens with anatomic, clinical, radiologic, pathophysiologic, and microbiologic information to give readers a clear understanding of each disease process.
Ioachim: Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology
By Harry L Ioachim and L Jeffrey Medeiros
2008 (4th ed), 640 pages, 726 illus, $229 list
Now in its Fourth Edition, this comprehensive, practical, and thoroughly illustrated reference offers valuable guidance in the diagnostic interpretation of lymph node biopsies, providing encyclopedic coverage of nonmalignant lesions, lymphomas, other neoplasms, and metastatic tumors in lymph nodes.
Rosen: Rosen's Breast Pathology
By Paul Peter Rosen
2008 (3rd ed), 1136 pages, 3170 illus, $349 list
Written by an internationally recognized expert in diagnostic breast pathology, this gold-standard text and reference is now in its revised, updated, and expanded Third Edition. It provides a comprehensive, extensively illustrated review of the clinical, radiological, pathological, and therapeutic aspects of the entire spectrum of breast diseases.
Schnitt: Biopsy Interpretation of the
Breast
By Stuart J Schnitt and
Laura C Collins
2008 (1st ed), 496 pages, 880 illus, $150
A practical guide for the diagnostic surgical pathologist, this book presents the diverse spectrum of pathologic alterations that occur in the breast in a manner analogous to the way they are encountered in daily practice. Lesions are grouped according to their histologic patterns to simulate the way pathologists face these lesions as they examine microscopic slides.
Tkachuk: Wintrobe's Atlas of Clinical
Hematology
By Douglas C Tkachuk and Jan V Hirschmann
2006 (1st ed), 368 pages, 501 illus, $210 list
Tied to the world-renowned textbook Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, this atlas enables physicians to see and readily comprehend diseased tissues and understand the complex assays routinely used in the care of patients with hematologic diseases. The comprehensive pictorial collection includes clinical and radiological images, photomicrographs, molecular assays, FISH, and cytogenetics.
Buyer’s Guide: This page lists all of our corporate advertisers in alphabetical order and sorted by category of products or services. If one of your vendors is NOT listed, suggest to their sales representative that they advertise with us. It’s one easy way to help our website.
Case of the week: We recently posted and emailed Case #122. To receive these cases by email, email NatPernick@Hotmail.com with “subscribe to COW” in the subject line. There is no charge. Cases are also listed on the Case of the Week page by number without diagnosis, by number with diagnosis and by category (dermatopathology, hematopathology, etc). We also accept new cases, although we have enough cases for the next 6 months or so.
Contests: Congratulations to Cheryl Rimmer, New Jersey (USA) and Serdar Balci, Ankara, Turkey, for each winning $75 in our Survey drawing ending April 2008. Thanks also to all who filled out the survey to improve our website. We have a new contest / drawing for laboratory personnel other than pathologists or PhDs. We will select 2 names at random from our Other Laboratory Jobs email list as of 1 November 2008, and send them $50 by check or via PayPal. Click on the Contests button at the bottom of the Home Page or here for more details.
Contribute: Click on our Contribute button to learn how you can help improve our website for the pathology community worldwide by contributing images, videos or comments.
Detroit College Promise: We have established The Detroit College Promise, which will provide tuition scholarships for Detroit Public School students in Michigan. We currently are filing paperwork to make this a tax-exempt organization. We will provide more details as they arise.
Emails: We have 5 email lists - Case of the Week (weekly, about 36 weeks per year), Jobs for Pathologists/PhDs (biweekly), Other laboratory Jobs (biweekly), New Books (monthly) and Website news (monthly). To subscribe, email NatPernick@Hotmail.com and indicate which email list you want to subscribe to. There is no charge. All of our email lists are private and are not shared, sold or used for any other purpose. Click on the Email updates button (left side of Home Page) for more information.
Exhibits: We attended the 15th Annual Seminar in Pathology on April 30 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, followed by the Michigan Society of Pathologists meeting in Plymouth, Michigan on May 3. Future conferences include the American Association of Clinical Chemistry / AACC in July (Washington D.C.), American Association of Pathology Assistants/AAPA in September (Long Beach, California) and College of American Pathologists in September (San Diego, California). Stop by our booth and say hello.
Images: We thank the following contributors of images or articles: (1) Dr. Jerad Gardner, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas (USA) for contributing the PDF of an article “Cardiac Autotransplantation for Surgical Resection of a Primary Malignant Left Ventricular Tumor”, added to the Heart-Tumor chapter; (2) Dr. Kaveh Naemi, University of California, Irvine, for contributing images of Burkitt’s lymphoma of the ileocecal value, added to the Lymphoma-B cell and Small Bowel chapters; (3) Drs. Kiran Alam, Anshu Jain, Veena Maheshwari, Farhan A. Siddiqui and Ershadul Haq, J.N. Medical College, India for contributing images of bladder schistosomiasis, added to the Bladder and Parasitology chapters, (4) Dr. John Irlam, University of Toledo, Ohio, for contributing images of micropapillary HG PIN of the prostate, added to the Prostate chapter, (5) Dr. Yvonne Bury, University Hospital of North Durham, UK, for contributing images of inflammatory cloacogenic polyp to the Anus and perianal area chapter, and (6) Dr. David Cohen, Israel for contributing additional images of lipomatous hemangiopericytoma, added to the Soft Tissue Tumors Part 1 chapter. We are behind in adding images, and hope to have the backlog cleared soon.
We have started linking to some very nice images from Wiley publications such as Cancer, including cytology images. Unfortunately, after clicking on the image link (which has a URL containing Wiley) you may also have to refresh the screen to see the image.
We invite you to contribute gross, microscopic, special stains or other images, particularly of uncommon entities. We will post them in the appropriate chapter of our online textbook, so pathologists and related personnel throughout the world can benefit from them. We particularly welcome large collections of images. We will list your name as a contributor in the chapter, and in this monthly email, unless you want to remain anonymous. For more information, click here.
Improvements: By request, we have changed the Home Page banner links to open a new window. We have also changed the directories for the Jobs, Conference and Fellowship pages, so please rebookmark these pages if necessary. The old links will still work. We recommend use of the new Firefox browser at www.firefox.com, which loads many pages, including ours, much faster.
Our website is under continuous improvement and is updated daily. Please email me at natpernick@hotmail.com if you see a possible error or have a comment. I personally respond to each email, usually within one business day.
Jobs page: We added Seeking Employment and Seeking a Residency ads to our popular Jobs page. These ads run for 6 months and cost $500, which must be prepaid. We encourage our Jobs advertisers to contact us if a position has filled, so we can remove it. However, we will also attempt to contact them after 3-4 months to ensure that any positions advertised are still open.
Link checking: We continue to link check on a regular basis. We are posting more images on our server (from donated images) and limiting the use of outside links to known reliable websites and journals, to reduce the number of bad image links. Even so, some very good websites do go down from time to time. Let us know if your spot a bad link, and we’ll check it out.
Mission: We are trying to improve the quality of our online textbook by (a) spending more time writing and updating chapters, (b) getting more reviewers (see below) and (c) getting more images donated (see above). We welcome any additional suggestions.
Mystery Case: We now have a Mystery Case of the Month on the Home page, right side. Click on the image to enlarge it, and on the link for the diagnosis. We plan to post a new case on the first of each month.
New Products and Services page: We continue to add announcements on a regular basis. Click on the New Products button (left side of the Home Page) to access this page.
Sister websites: We have started a sister website, www.DermatologyOutlines.com. It is still in the preliminary stages (only the Home Page is accessible right now). Our plan is to use similar content for the chapters, with perhaps more emphasis on treatment. However, any additional advertising revenue will help us improve the content of the textbook.
Textbook: We recently completed an extensive update of Soft Tissue Tumors-Part 1, now with 104 topics, including an introductory section about approaches to diagnosis, syndromes, grading and molecular patterns. We describe all WHO tumors and numerous non-WHO entities classified as fibroblastic / myofibroblastic, fibrohistiocytic and lipomatous, with over 1000 image links from the AFIP fascicle 3rd series, free full text journals and other sources, as well as 700+ references and 49 virtual slides. We plan to update this chapter annually. We are currently updating the Breast Malignant chapter.
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