7 October 2008
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent on 19 June 2008. We are planning to return to a monthly schedule.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing business advertisers: Invitrogen (antibodies and detection kits for immunohistochemistry), Leica Microsystems, Biosystems Division (histology needs, from tissue cassettes to microtomes to IHC automation to antibodies and reagents), Mopec (custom Pathology Laboratory Equipment), Quantimetrix Corporation (clinical diagnostic products), Vachette Pathology (financial oversight and practice management), Scarab Genomics (bioengineered the Clean Genome® E. coli).
Archive of past monthly website news emails:
June 2008 April 2008 February 2008 December 2007 November 2007
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. We have fallen behind, but will catch up this month. 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:
Adams: Guidelines for
Reports by Autopsy Pathologists
By Vernard Irvine Adams
2008 (1st ed), 113 pages, $50 list
This manual describes what should be in an autopsy report, how to organize the material, and what the purposes are. The book lists numerous bad habits to avoid, and offers examples of effective report construction. It covers not only how to describe diseases and injuries, but also how to formulate and write opinions.
Cagle: Dail and
Hammar's Pulmonary Pathology: Volume 1: Non-neoplastic Lung Disease Volume 2:
Neoplastic Lung Disease
By Philip T Cagle, Carol Farver, Armando E
Fraire and Joseph F Tomashefski
2008 (3rd ed), 3272 pages, 2614 illus, $399 list
Dail and Hammar’s Pulmonary Pathology has established itself as the definitive reference in the field. This third edition is now a two-volume, full color text. Abundantly illustrated, this outstanding contribution to pathology literature is a must-have for the library of every surgical and pulmonary pathologist.
Cagle: Dail and
Hammar's Pulmonary Pathology: Volume 2: Neoplastic Lung Disease
By Philip T Cagle, Carol Farver, Armando E
Fraire, and Joseph F Tomashefski
2008 (3rd ed), 1800 pages, 985 illus, $225 list
Cagle: Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology, Second Edition
by Philip T Cagle, Timothy C Allen and Mary Beth Beasley
2008 (2nd ed), 824 pages, $300
Maintaining the award winning format, from the best selling first edition, Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology starts by taking the patient and their biopsy results, and then directs the pathologist or clinician through a series of steps until they have reached the proper diagnosis.
Cagle: Transbronchial
and Endobronchial Biopsies
By Philip T Cagle and Timothy C Allen
2008 (1st ed), 256 pages, $199 list
Featuring over 250 full-color images, this text is a detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide to interpretation of transbronchial and endobronchial biopsies. The book presents a consistent, well-organized approach to each biopsy diagnosis: differential diagnosis includes low-power figure overview, high-power figure from the same diagnosis, followed by artifacts, pitfalls, and special clues to the correct diagnosis. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.
Geller: Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver
By Stephen A Geller
2008 (2nd ed), $149 list
Provides a comprehensive overview of liver diseases, focusing on the histopathology of those diseases. Discusses acute and chronic hepatitis, biliary diseases, neoplasms and transplantation pathology. Includes a CD-ROM offering more than 600 full-color images. For physicians and residents.
Gnepp: Diagnostic Surgical Pathology of the Head and Neck
by Douglas R Gnepp
2008 (2nd ed), 1024 pages, 1520 illus, $349 list
Confidently diagnose any form of head and neck pathology with the definitive guidance inside this respected resource! This new edition places an even greater emphasis on differential diagnosis, and incorporates the latest ancillary diagnostic techniques such as immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics - enabling you to arrive at accurate diagnoses more efficiently than ever before.
Khurana: Bone
Pathology
By Jasvir S Khurana
2008 (2nd ed), 315 pages, $175 list
This second edition of the compendium is an update of information in the field of skeletal pathology. A new section on the molecular diagnosis of soft-tissues sarcomas has been included, as well as a entirely new chapter on soft-tissue tumors.
Nucci: Gynecologic Pathology
By Marisa R Nucci and Esther Oliva
2008 (1st ed), 592 pages $159 list
This new title offers today’s most essential gynecologic pathology know-how in a compact, high-yield format! For each pathologic entity examined, you’ll find discussions of clinical features, pathologic features (gross and microscopic), as well as ancillary studies, differential diagnosis, and prognostic and therapeutic considerations.
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.
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 #130. We typically post 3 cases per month. 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, with and without diagnosis, and by category (dermatopathology, hematopathology, etc). We also accept new cases, although we have enough cases for the next 6-8 months.
Contests: We now have 3 contests / drawings. The first is for $50 (two winners) to laboratory personnel other than pathologists or PhDs who sign up for our Other Laboratory Jobs email list by 1 November 2008. The second is for up to $50 (two winners) to anyone who works in a pathology department or laboratory and purchases items from Amazon.com through our Books pages or Home Page banners (and forwards us the purchase email), thru 31 December 2008. The third is for $50 (one winner) to first year pathology residents in the US or Canada who sign up for our New Books email by 31 December 2008. For more information, visit our Contests page by clicking here or click at the bottom of the Home Page.
Contribute: Click on our Contribute button (left side of Home Page) to learn how you can help improve our website for the pathology community worldwide by contributing images, videos or comments or by authoring new chapters or sections.
Detroit College Promise: Our new charity to provide college tuition scholarships for Detroit Public School students is going well. Sign up for our monthly newsletter by emailing NatPernick@Hotmail.com with “subscribe to DCP monthly email” in the subject line.
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 recently exhibited at 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). We will soon be exhibiting at the Wayne State University 4th Annual Course (Dearborn, Michigan) and the American Society of Clinical Pathology (Baltimore, Maryland). Stop by our booths and say hello.
Images: We thank the following contributors of images to the chapters indicated:
● Dr. Asmaa Gaber Abdou and Dr. Mona Kandil, Menofiya University, Egypt - Skin-tumor - pilomatrixoma; Ovary - MMMT; Parathyroid - parathyroid adenoma
● Dr. Asmaa Gaber Abdou and Dr. Nancy Asaad - Skin-tumor - hobnail hemangioma and fibrous papule of face
● Dr. Julia Braza, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts - Skin-nontumor - molluscum contagiosum; Breast malignant - CLL/SLL
● Professor D. Y. Cohen, Herzliyah Medical Center, Israel - Adrenal gland - retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma
● Angel Fernandez-Flores, MD, PhD, Hospital El Bierzo and Clinica Ponferrada, Spain - Skin tumor - angiokeratoma, atypical fibroxanthoma, chondroid syringoma, glomeruloid hemangioma, glomus tumor, halo nevus, hidradenoma, hidrocystoma, lymphomatoid papulosis, vascular leiomyoma, syringoma, trichoepithelioma; Skin nontumor - cutaneous focal mucinosis, molluscum contagiosum, porokeratosis, psoriasis, Sweet’s syndrome, tuberculosis
● Dr. Hanni Gulwani, New Delhi (India) - Lung tumor - hamartoma
● Dr. Mowafak Hamodat, Eastern Health of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Canada - Cervix - breast lobular carcinoma metastatic to cervix; Uterus - leiomyoma, adenomyosis, leiomyoma embolization; Testis - Leydig cell tumor
● Dr. Yao-Wen Liu, Kuo General Hospital, Taiwan, Cervix cytology - cornflakes
● Professor Venna Maheshwar, Drs. Kiran Alam and Anshu Jain, J. N. Medical College, India - Testis - filiarial epididymitis; Nasal cavity - rhinosporidiosis; Lung nontumor - aspergillosis; Ear-otomycosis, Skin nontumor - leishmaniasis, maduramycosis
● Dr. Nilesh Patel, California - Esophagus - esophagitis, mixed herpes and candida
● Dr. Semir Vranic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Small bowel - metastatic melanoma to jejunum; Gall bladder - carcinosarcoma metastatic to SI; Breast malignant - solid variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma
● Dr. Debra Zynger, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois - Ovary - yolk sac tumor.
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 will list your name as a contributor in the chapter, and in this monthly email, unless you want to remain anonymous. The turnaround time for posting is now running 4-6 weeks. For more information, click here.
Improvements: By request, we are changing our chapters and other pages, over time, so that links will open a new window. We are also adding more Home Page links to chapters as they are updated. We recommend use of the new Firefox browser at www.firefox.com, which loads many pages, including ours, much faster.
We were advised by one visitor that some of our large chapters, such as Breast-nontumor and Breast-malignant, load very slow or not at all on systems with limited memory. Please let me know if you are having this problem. We may break up these chapters into sections, so the pages are smaller and load faster.
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 or change the links to come up with an error page, which our link checker program cannot detect. Let us know if your spot a bad link, and we’ll check it out.
Mystery Case: We 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 at the beginning 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 website: We have started a sister website, www.DermatologyOutlines.com. Our plan is to have dermatology advertising (corporate, jobs, fellowships, etc.) but use similar content for the chapters, with perhaps more emphasis on treatment. However, the additional advertising revenue will help us improve the content of the textbooks.
Textbook: We updated the Breast-Malignant chapter, now with 1300+ image links and new references and text. Our Thyroid Gland chapter was reviewed by Shahidul Islam, MD, PhD, FCAP, The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario (Canada). We are now updating chapters on Breast-nontumor and Skin-Melanocytic tumors. We are seeking authors to write new chapters on quality assurance / quality control in the laboratory, or flow cytometry. If interested, please contact Dr. Pernick at NatPernick@Hotmail.com. We added a new Management page article, Collaborative Labs and the Underlying Cost to Pathologists, by Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology.
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.
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