Histopathology of the Salivary Glands
Over the past 25 years it has become more and more evident that salivary gland pathology is by far the subject within head and neck pathology that causes the most diagnostic challenges and problems for general pathologists. Among the reasons for this are
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Histopathology of the Salivary Glands
Henrik Hellquist • Alena Skalova
Histopathology of the Salivary Glands
Henrik Hellquist Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina Universidade do Algarve Faro Portugal
Alena Skalova Department of Pathology Medical Faculty Charles University Plzen Czech Republic
ISBN 978-3-540-46912-4 ISBN 978-3-540-46915-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-46915-5 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To my son Carl Henrik Eric Hellquist and my wife Randi Hellquist, and also to the mother of my son, my former wife Ilze Hellquist.
Preface
It is our hope that this book will help and assist in the practical diagnostic work of surgical pathology of the salivary glands but also serve as a textbook for students, ENT surgeons and head and neck oncologists. The diagnostic difficulties in salivary gland pathology lie primarily in the fact that most practising pathologists do not come across these lesions on a daily basis, rather than that the lesions are more difficult than other pathologies in the body. When I started in surgical pathology as a medical
