28 May 2009
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent in February 2009.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing business advertisers: ARUP Laboratories (reference lab and CME provider), Covance (antibodies), Invitrogen (antibodies), Lide Labs (Hansel stain), Pathology Service Associates, LLC (pathology business support) and Photodyne Technologies (macro photography systems).
Recent monthly website news emails:
Feb 2009, Jan 2009, Oct 2008, Jun 2008
Books: We list all new books (2003 to date) 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 path books email” in the subject line. There is no charge.
We have updated our list of Top Books sold through our website at Amazon.com. Number one is Fenoglio-Preiser: Gastrointestinal Pathology. Click here for the list, or click on the Books button on the left hand side of the Home Page.
Recently added books include:
AABB: Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services
By American Association of Blood Banks
2008 (25th ed), 133 pages, $145 list
The 25th edition of Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services details the latest standards of practice in blood banking and transfusion medicine. As in the past, a quality management system is the framework of the standards, with each of the 10 chapter headings representing one of the 10 quality system essentials.
Cagle: Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology
By Philip Cagle
2009 (1st ed), 224 pages, 53 illus, $80 list
The Molecular Pathology Library series was created to bridge the gap between traditional basic science textbooks in molecular biology and traditional medical textbooks for organ-specific diseases. Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology is designed as a stand-alone book to provide the pathologist, clinician or radiologist with a concise review of the essential terminology, concepts and tools of molecular biology that are applied to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases in the age of personalized medicine.
Folpe: Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology
By Andrew Folpe
2009, 560 pages, 1000 illus, $179 list
This text packs today's most essential bone and soft tissue pathology know-how into a compact, high-yield format! The book's pragmatic, well-organized approach-complemented by abundant full-color, high-quality illustrations and at-a-glance tables-makes it easy to access the information you need to quickly and accurately identify pathology specimens.
By W. Kempf
2008 (1st ed), 300 pages, 242 illus, $159 list
This book provides an introduction to the principles of dermatopathology, aimed primarily at dermatologists and pathologists in training, but useful for a wide audience. Everyone interested in dermatopathology will profit from combined knowledge of 4 experienced dermatopathologists, uniform structure approach concentrating on common diagnoses, logical presentation of clinical and histological features, large clearly labeled illustrations, clues for differential diagnostic considerations.
Khan: Surgical Pathology of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors
By Ashraf Khan
2009 (1st ed), 360 pages, 162 illus, $149 list
Surgical pathology is the cornerstone in the management of neoplastic disorders. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist in mind, Surgical Pathology of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors provides an up-to-date text on surgical pathology of endocrine and neuroendocrine tumors. The text begins with radiological imaging of tumors, followed by a section on fine needle aspiration biopsy. The main section focuses on surgical pathology of endocrine and neuroendocrine tumors. The volume closes with applications of molecular techniques and their potential for the future. Surgical Pathology of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors is written by a panel of internationally recognized pathologists who are not only experts in their fields, but who also contribute their own valuable insights making this new book an essential resource for practicing general and specialist surgical pathologists and pathologists in training.
Klatt: Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology
By Edward Klatt
2009 (2nd ed), 576 pages, 1200 illus, $55 list
This new full-color pathology atlas is specifically designed to accompany Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition. More than 1,200 full-color illustrations depict all of the major conditions that are most commonly covered in pathology courses and on the USMLEs. Gross and microscopic pathology images are complemented by full-color conceptual line drawings and corresponding radiologic images.
Kumar: Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
By Vijay Kumar
2009 (8th ed), 1464 pages, 1600 illus, $122 list
A "who's who" of pathology experts delivers the most dependable, current, and complete coverage of today's essential pathology knowledge. At the same time, masterful editing and a practical organization make mastering every concept remarkably easy.
By Laura Lamps
2009 (1st ed), 300 pages, 600 illus, $185 list
This text provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the practicing surgical pathologist by combining the superior illustrations of an atlas with carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. Each chapter, is extensively illustrated, and contains brief clinical descriptions, as well as prose discussions of diagnostic features, differential diagnosis, and ancillary tests that help confirm the diagnosis (i.e. immunohistochemistry, special histochemical stains, or molecular diagnosic techniques).
Leonard: Quick Compendium Companion for Molecular Pathology
By George Leonard
2009 (1st ed), 208 pages, $90 list
This book provides hundreds of questions covering each of the areas of clinical pathology, ideal as a study tool for the board exam. Best of all, each question’s answer is keyed to the page of the Quick Compendium of Clinical Pathology which the material is discussed.
Maclennan: Atlas of Genitourinary Pathology
By Gregory Maclennan
2009 (1st ed), 592 pages, 1500 illus, $350 list
A single referral source to find images and information concerning all pathological entities in the field of genitourinary pathology, this book contains gross photos and photomicrographs of virtually every pathologic entity, and variants of those entities.
Weidner: Modern Surgical Pathology
By Noel Weidner
2009 (2nd ed), 2608 pages, 3650 illus, $459 list
Presents today's most complete, current, and practical assistance in evaluating and signing out surgical specimens. Clinical, gross, microscopic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic features are integrated as appropriate for all tumors and tumor-like lesions, addressing all of the investigative contexts relevant to formulating an accurate diagnosis.
Zhou: Silva's Diagnostic Renal Pathology
By Xin Zhou
2009 (1st ed), 512 pages, 1000 illus, $175 list
This book covers all methods used by renal pathologists to diagnose a wide range of kidney diseases. This book focuses on tumors and transplantation rejection. In addition, a full spectrum of infectious, inflammatory, and congenital disorders is covered in both pediatric and adult populations, and is analyzed not only by light microscopy but by each applicable diagnostic modality available.
Question: Do you like seeing a picture of the Book Cover accompanying the book’s description? If so, we can start adding it. Email us to let us know.
Buyer’s Guide: This page (click here) lists all of our corporate advertisers in alphabetical order and sorted by category of products or services. If one of your pathology / laboratory vendors is NOT listed, suggest to their sales representative that they advertise with us. It’s an easy way to help our website.
Case of the week: We recently posted and emailed Case #147. 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: We have decided to select two winners of $50 for our survey contest. We will notify them soon and post their names on our Contests page when confirmed. Thanks to all who completed our survey, which has been helpful in improving our website.
Contribute: We were saddened to learn about the death of Dr. William Weems, a dermatopathologist whose website had many nice images that we linked to. Unfortunately, his website has also disappeared, and all of those images are now lost. To preserve your image collections, we invite you to contribute images to us, where we will post them, with your name as the contributor, for a longer period (most likely) than you could maintain them yourself. Your contribution will be seen by our large number of monthly visitors, who will appreciate your work.
Detroit College Promise: Our charity is turning around a large urban school system, by offering assistance with college readiness and scholarships. For seniors graduating in 2009, we have 143 students eligible for our scholarships. For next year, we intend to assist 25,000 high school students in Detroit. For more information, please contact us, or visit www.DetroitCollegePromise.org.
Editorial Board: We are planning to start an editorial board, to oversee a process of more peer reviewed content at our website. If you are interested, or have any suggestions, please contact us.
Emails: Our current email lists are: Case of the Week (3 weeks/month), Jobs for Pathologists/PhDs (biweekly), Other laboratory Jobs (biweekly), New Fellowships (biweekly), New Books (monthly), Website news (monthly) and Detroit College Promise news (monthly). Our sister website, DermatologyOutlines.com, also has email lists for: Case of the Month, Dermatology Jobs, Dermatology Fellowships, Dermatology Books and Dermatology News. 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: This fall, we will be attending conferences of the American Association of Pathology Assistants, CAP, ASCP and Wayne State University. Stop by our booth and say hello, and let us know your thoughts on how we can make our website more useful to you. We recently exhibited at USCAP and the Michigan Society of Pathologists.
Forum: We are planning to start a forum for pathologists. More information will follow.
Images: 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.
Thanks to Angel Fernandez-Flores, MD, PhD, Hospital El Bierzo and Clinica Ponferrada, Spain, for contributing images to the Skin-Melanocytic Tumors chapter of blue nevus, cellular blue nevus, dysplastic nevus, lentigo melanoma, melanoma-general and nodular melanoma.
Improvements: Some recent improvements (in response to your comments) that are being incorporated into new and updated chapters include:
- better formatting of the Home Page
- Table of contents, also in alphabetical order
- adding descriptions to images posted from the AFIP fascicle
- more spacing to improve readability
- splitting of chapters that are long
- including more content in the differential diagnoses.
We are considering making each topic a separate page, with bigger captions and thumbnails of images (linking to larger images). What do you think? Let us know with an email.
Link checking: We link check each chapter at least every 3 months, and other pages more frequently. However, some good websites go down from time to time, or change the links in a way our link checker program cannot detect. Let us know if your spot a bad link, and we’ll check it out.
Management page: This page (accessible from the center of the Home Page under Clinical Pathology topics) contains original articles added by advertisers. Recent additions include:
May09 - How the New Anti-Markup Rules May Change Your Practice, by Michelle Miller and Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology (click here)
May09 - FTC "Red Flags" Rule Compliance, by John R. Outlaw, PSA, LLC (click here)
Apr09 - Coding Prostate Saturation Biopsies, by Laura Edgeworth, PSA, LLC (click here)
Apr09 - Billing Contracts verses Managed Care Contracts, by Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology (click here)
Apr09 - CMS Continues to Tinker with Anti-Markup Rule, POD Labs and In-Office Histology Labs in the Cross-Hairs, by John Outlaw, PSA, LLC (click here)
Mar09 - The New Year Offerings, by Mick Raich, Vachette Pathology (click here)
New Products and Services page: We continue to add announcements on a regular basis. Click here or on the New Products button (left side of the Home Page) to access this page.
Product Placement: This feature, added in response to a suggestion, includes links to companies that sell products or services discussed in the textbook, such as Kras testing. We will also add an objective discussion of the topic, if needed. We recently added information on the Hansel stain (click here), and anticipate adding many more links and new topics in the coming months.
Sister website: Tell your dermatology colleagues about www.DermatologyOutlines.com.
Textbook: Recent chapter updates include Kidney tumors - now split into Kidney tumor - cysts, children, adult benign and Kidney tumor - adult malignancies, Soft Tissue Tumors Part 1 and Thyroid gland. We also added a new chapter on Molecular Pathology, with an initial discussion of FISH.
Recent chapter reviews include Breast-nonmalignant by Dr. Hind Nassar, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Breast-malignant, children, males by Dr. Daniel Visscher, University of Michigan, Soft Tissue Tumors Part 1 by Dr. David Lucas, University of Michigan and Thyroid gland by Shahidul Islam, MD, PhD, The Ottawa Hospital (Ontario, Canada).
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