Breast Pathology : Problematic Issues

This book covers practical diagnostic issues in breast pathology, with special emphasis on areas which pose diagnostic difficulties. These include dealing with the gross specimens derived from patients treated with conservative surgery and those who had neo-adjuvant therapy before surgery. It also d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Shousha, Sami (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319286556
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-28655-6
Physical DescriptionXI, 283 p. 178 illus., 173 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Dealing with the gross specimen
  • Handling Neo-Adjuvant therapy Specimens
  • Proliferative Breast Lesions
  • Problematic Core Biopsies
  • Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
  • Lobular neoplasia
  • Grading of invasive carcinoma
  • Fibroepithelial Lesions
  • Mucinous Lesions of the breast and expression of WT1
  • Spindle cell lesions
  • Papillary carcinomas
  • Metaplastic breast carcinomas
  • Metastatic lesions in the breast
  • Axillary Lymph node biopsies
  • A Practical Approach to the use of Immunohistochemistry in the Diagnosis and Management of Breast Disease
  • Molecular classification and testing of breast carcinoma
  • Uncommon benign breast lesions
  • Uncommon malignant lesions
  • Male breast lesions.