26 February 2008
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent on 10 December 2007. We have changed our contact email addresses to NatPernick@Hotmail.com and NatPernick@gmail.com. Please update your records.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing business sponsors: Aperio (digital pathology), ARUP Laboratories (reference laboratory), Centerchem, Inc. (coagulation assays), Clarient Diagnostic Services (cancer testing laboratory), Elekta-IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. (pathology information systems), Laboratory Investigation (journal), Modern Pathology (journal), OurLabs Ethical Pathology BLOG and PathSync (practice management software).
Affiliates: We have added an Affiliates page and button. All purchases made by clicking on the links from the Affiliates page help our website financially, without costing you anything.
Archive of past monthly website news emails:
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:
Bostwick: Urological Surgical Pathology
with CD-ROM
By David G Bostwick and Liang Cheng
2008 (2nd ed), 1024 pages, $289 list
Completely revised with practical guidance in daily urological pathology sign-out and the latest recommended diagnostic approaches, the new edition of this comprehensive reference equips you to accurately diagnose specimens of the entire urinary tract and male reproductive system plus the adrenal glands.
Howie: Handbook of
Renal Biopsy Pathology
By Alexander J Howie
2007 (2nd ed), 340 pages, 249 illus, $80 list
This handbook provides a short,
clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens.
It is intended to be of practical help primarily to pathologists and trainee
pathologists who look at these specimens.
more
Keeling: Fetal and Neonatal Pathology
By Jean W Keeling and T Yee Khong
2007 (4th ed), 878 pages, 728 illus, $299 list
Fetal and Neonatal Pathology is the Fourth Edition of what has become the classic reference in the field of fetal and neonatal pathology. Fully revised and up-dated, the book retains the overall format of previous editions, presenting the same practical approach to the examination of both fetuses and perinatal deaths.
Ovalle: Netter's Essential Histology
By William K Ovalle and Patrick C Nahirney
2007 (1st ed) 512 pages, $72 list
Here's a contemporary and visual overview of normal histology that combines classic Netter illustrations and new drawings in the Netter style, with original light and electron micrographs, and succinct explanatory text to give you a rich understanding of this vital subject.
Rubin: Netter's Concise Neuroanatomy
By Michael Rubin and Joseph E Safdieh
2007 (1st ed), 424 pages, $47 list
This unique, comprehensive book provides rich visual guidance on all aspects of neuroanatomy, as only artwork by master medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, MD can. Concise tables highlight important aspects of each structure, equipping you with the essential knowledge you need to master this complex discipline.
Zander: Pulmonary Pathology: A Volume in
Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series
by Dani S. Zander and Carol F. Farver
2008 (1st ed), 864 pages, $159 list
This volume packs today's most essential pulmonary pathology into a compact, high-yield format! It covers both common and rare neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the lung and pleura and focuses primarily on diagnosis with correlations to clinical and radiographic characteristics.
Buyer’s Guide: no changes.
Case of the week: We recently posted and emailed Case #111. To receive these cases by email, email NatPernick@Hotmail.com with “subscribe to COW” in the subject line. There is no charge. Cases are listed by number without diagnosis, by number with diagnosis and by pathology category (dermatopathology, hematopathology, etc).
Contests: We have a new contest / drawing for those who complete our new Survey by 30 April 2008. Click on the Contests button at the bottom of the Home Page or click here for more details.
Contribute: Click on our new Contribute button to learn how you can help improve our website for the pathology community worldwide by contributing images, videos or comments.
Emails: We have 5 email lists - Case of the Week (weekly, about 40 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: On March 3-5, we will exhibit at the USCAP Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Please stop by Booth #514 and let us know how we can make our website more useful to you.
Images: We thank Dr. Julia Braza, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) for sending us a case report on CLL with meningeal infiltration and accompanying images, which was posted in the Lymphoma-B cell chapter. We thank the following contributors of images to the chapters indicated: Dr. Yan Lemeshev, Texas (USA)-Placenta (decidual vasculopathy), Dr. Monica de Baca, South Dakota (USA)-Parasitology (malaria), Leica Microsystems, Biosystems Division (Australia)-Stains F-Z (kappa and lambda ISH), Dr. Jamie Shutter, Florida (USA)-Lung nontumor (histoplasmosis), Drs. Charles J. Sailey, Borislav A. Alexiev and John C. Papadimitriou, Maryland (USA)-CD Markers CD100-CD400 (CD163) and Lymph Node-not lymphoma (histiocytic sarcoma), Dr. Hanni Gulwani, New Delhi (India)-Pancreas (serous cystadenoma), Ovary (juvenile granulosa cell tumor) and Lung nontumor (hydatid cyst).
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: Our website is under continuous improvement and is updated daily. Please email us if you see a possible error or have a comment. I personally respond to each email, usually within one business day.
Jobs page: We now have an Available Candidates section on the Pathologist / PhD Jobs page, for those who want employers to contact them. The cost is $500 for posting up to 6 months, which must be prepaid.
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.
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.
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.
Reviewers: We thank Dr. Hind Nassar, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, for reviewing the Breast nonmalignant chapter. We want each chapter reviewed by an expert after it is updated. Currently, we are seeking reviewers for these chapters/sections: Thyroid Gland (update almost completed). Click here for more information.
Textbook: We have updated the Leukemia-Acute chapter, which now contains more discussion, images and references based on the new WHO classification for AML and ALL. We have updated the Stains chapter entry on calretinin. We added a new chapter, Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms, which incorporates the WHO 2008 classification to be published in a few months. It includes updated text and extensive images and references for Myelodysplasia, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, MDS/MPN and Mast Cell Disease. Visit the Management Page (under Clinical Pathology Outlines) to read the new article "Pathology Practice Management Issues for 2008", by Mick Raich of Vachette Pathology.
Thanks.
-- Nat
Nat Pernick, M.D., President
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