Histopathology Reporting Guidelines for Surgical Cancer
This book is an easily comprehensible and practicable framework for standardised histopathology reports in surgical cancer. The pathological features of the common carcinomas are detailed and non-carcinomatous malignancies are also summarised. 8th edition
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Histopathology Reporting
David P. Boyle • Derek C. Allen Editors
Histopathology Reporting Guidelines for Surgical Cancer Fourth Edition
Editors David P. Boyle Institute of Pathology Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast UK
Derek C. Allen Belfast City Hospital Histopathology Laboratory Belfast UK
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Preface to the Fourth Edition
Since the previous edition, demand for cellular pathology services continues to increase annually whilst the availability of consultant pathologists has not kept pace. Increasing pressures are also associated with more complicated requirements relating to reporting: this, in turn, resulting from the central role that pathology plays in guiding patient management through accurate categorisation of disease entities and provision or prognostic and therapy predictive information. Whilst a seemingly inexorable challenge faced by the pathologist, it is also a time of fascinating development that has placed pathology at the centre of patient management. The aim of the fourth edition of this text is to continue to ensure consistency of approach in specimen examination and diagnosis for consultant and trainee pathologists. The standardised approach to various cancer types is built upon to reflect the numerous updates across many systems. Whilst it is acknowledged that a cohort of genera
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