29 January 2009
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent in October 2008.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing business advertisers:
Bioimagene (total imaging solutions), Centerchem, Inc. (coagulation assays and fibrinolysis diagnostics), Clarient Diagnostic Services (national cancer testing services laboratory), Covance (provider of gold standard Signet™ immunopathology antibodies, detection chemistries and ancillaries), Impac Software (provider of PowerPath® information system), Laboratory Investigation (official journal of USCAP), Leica Microsystems (developer and manufacturer of optical systems plus other products), Milestone Medical (Microwave Accelerated Tissue Processing), Modern Pathology (official journal of USCAP), Pathology Service Associates, LLC (PSA) (provider of pathology billing and collection services and practice support services), Sakura Finetek USA (histology instrumentation and consumables).
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. 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:
By Ivan Damjanov
2008 (3rd ed), 528 pages, 30 illus, $40 list
A two-color page layout, portable size, and a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in pathology help students and residents to better meet the challenges they face today. They will find all of the features they rely on the Secret Series® for-a question-and-answer format, lists, mnemonics, and tables and an informal tone that make reference fast and easy.
Finkbeiner: Autopsy Pathology: A Manual and Atlas
By Walter Finkbeiner
2009 (2nd ed), 441 pages, 410 illus, $179 list
This how-to guide presents today's most complete coverage of performing, interpreting, and reporting post-mortem examinations. In addition to discussing the basics of the specialty, this lasting and useful reference features information on the performance of specialized autopsy procedures.
Holladay: Cytopathology Review Guide
By Blair Holladay
2008 (3rd ed), 396 pages, 367 illus, $150 list
The latest edition continues to serve as a litmus test for both cytotechnology generalist and specialist Board examinations. With more than 1,200 self-study questions and 360 images now at nearly three times the size of those in the previous edition and at higher resolution the volume is sure to serve as an invaluable and comprehensive self-study reference for pathologists, pathology residents, cytotechnologists, and cytopathologists in training.
Koerner: Diagnostic Problems in Breast Pathology
By Frederick Koerner
2008, 384 pages, 1057 illus, $159 list
This new text examines common as well as more difficult diagnostic problems encountered in today's field of breast pathology. The first part of each major section consists of a presentation of general concepts and a detailed description of the pathologic characteristics of specific lesions. Then it focuses on the differences between commonly confused entities and emphasizes pathologic findings to help you obtain the most accurate diagnosis.
McKee: Diagnostic Atlas of Melanocytic Pathology
By Phillip McKee
2009, 440 pages, 1184 illus, $209 list
Diagnose any benign, premalignant, or malignant melanocytic lesion with over 1000 high-quality color images in this practical, easy-to-use reference. Drs. McKee and Calonje present their expert knowledge by including diagnostic pearls and pitfalls accurate diagnosis from discussions of the clinical manifestations of melanocytic lesions.
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 #137. 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 9-10 months.
Contests: Congratulations to Dr. Marilin Rosa, Jacksonville, Florida (USA) and Dr. Angel Fernandez-Flores, Ponferrada, Spain for winning our Amazon.com drawing. Each will receive a check for $50 for purchasing items from Amazon.com through our website.
Congratulations also to Dr. Andrea L. Weins, Ball Memorial Hospital, Indiana (USA), for winning our drawing for first year residents who signed up for our New Books email. She will receive a check for $50. 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 currently has 113 scholarship recipients at Cody High School in Detroit to receive college tuition scholarships. Click here to contribute or visit our website at www.DetroitCollegePromise.org.
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 pathology conferences from Wayne State University in Detroit (October 2008), ASCP in Baltimore (October 2008), Michigan Dermatologic Society for DermatologyOutlines.com (November 2008), and Michigan Society of Pathologists (December 2008). In March, we will be exhibiting at USCAP in Boston, Booth #711. Stop by our booth and say hello.
Images: We thank the following contributors of images to the chapters indicated:
Dr. Derek Mathis and Dr. Rosemarie Rodriguez from the SAUSHEC Pathology Residency Program, San Antonio, Texas: Small Intestine - Whipple’s disease; Drs. Michael P. Orejudos and Rosemarie Rodriguez, SAUSHEC, San Antonio, Texas (USA) -Lung nontumor - CMV; Dr. Semir Vranic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ampulla - adenocarcinoma; Angel Fernandez-Flores, MD, PhD, Hospital El Bierzo and Clinica Ponferrada, Spain, Skin-nontumor - fat necrosis (acute pancreatitis); Skin-Melanocytic tumors - junctional nevus, dermal nevus - Unna’s type, Spitz nevus.
Dr. Asmaa Gaber Abdou, Menofiya University, Egypt for contributing images of poikiloderma atrophicans vasculare to the skin-nontumor chapter.
Dr. Asmaa Gaber Abdou, Menofiya University, Egypt - Testis - yolk sac tumor metastatic to abdomen, germ cell aplasia-Sertoli cell only, Leydig cell hyperplasia, normal testis and spermatocytic arrest
Dr. Nilesh N. Patel - histoplasmosis of stomach.
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. 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.
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.
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: Tell your dermatology colleagues about our sister website, www.DermatologyOutlines.com.
Textbook:
27 October 2008: (a) We posted a new article on our Management Page - “Pathology takes another pay cut”, by Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology. (b) Our
updated the Breast-nonmalignant chapter with new text, references and over 400 new image links. This is one of our most popular chapters (also Soft Tissue part 1, Thyroid, Ovary, Breast malignant, Kidney Tumor, Skin Tumor, CNS Tumor, Uterus, Skin nontumor, Soft Tissue part 2 and Stains), and our goal is to update these chapters at least once a year. We will try to update the remaining chapters at least every 2 years, and more frequently if possible. We will still add new Clinical Pathology topics and plan to add 1000 image links per month. (d) We are updating the Stains chapter with the most commonly used stains, in alphabetical order. We recently updated these topics: Acid Fast Bacilli, Actin-muscle specific and Alpha-1-antitrypsin. Our philosophy is to post information about stains based on published research. We do not believe it is good science to routinely combine studies of immunostains, without a thorough understanding of the methodology of the studies. Different studies often use different antibody clones, different dilutions and markedly different methods of interpretation. (e) As we update new chapters, most of the image and reference links will now open a new window, which was requested by our visitor
1 December 2008: (a) We extensively updated the Skin-Melanocytic Tumors chapter, now with 450+ image links (many links are to multiple images), including clinical, dermoscopic and microscopic images. There are also 500+ references from the most current literature. (b) We posted new Management Page articles, “The Tangled Web of Claim Payments-How Managed Care Contracts Kill Your Revenue” and “Hospital Outreach Laboratory For Sale. Who’s Buying Now?”, both 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.
-- Nat
Nat Pernick, M.D., President
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