Among the more diagnostically challenging human cancers is that affecting the bladder, not because the cytologic changes are so difficult to appreciate, but because the implications of those changes are so misunderstood by pathologists and urologists.
Leopold Koss expresses that misunderstanding in the fifth edition of his seminal work, Diagnostic Cytology and its Histopathologic Bases. "The problem with cytology of the urinary tract is the lack of basic understanding of the accomplishments and limitations of the method and of the pathologic processes accounting for it."
While this volume cannot begin to match Koss’s expansive treatise, the authors hope by the sheer number of illustrations in this atlas to clear some of the misunderstandings of this cancer that affl icts some 70,000 new patients per year and kills another 14,000 in the United States. A noteworthy statistic: more that 500,000 people in the US are survivors of this cancer!
In addition to the skills of the authors, this volume would not have been possible without the dedicated eff orts of Frances Burroughs, SCT (ASCP), who caringly selected the cytologic examples from the extensive archives of the John K. Frost Cytopathology Laboratory at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.The authors hope that this volume will serve as a guide to pathologists in selecting appropriate samples when our diagnostic menu is amplified by molecular and genetic markers of prediction and prognosis for those patients unfortunately affl icted with urothelial carcinoma. Until then, may it continue to guide those involved in traditional morphologic diagnosis of urothelial cancer and other malignancies of the bladder and upper urinary tracts.
Contents
- 1. Normal Urothelium, Other Cells, and Contaminants
- 2. Cystoscopic Characteristics of Urinary Tract Lesions
- 3. Nonneoplastic Lesions—Reactive Conditions
- 4. Nonneoplastic Lesions—Infections
- 5. Hyperplasia, Benign, and Borderline Urothelial Neoplasms
- 6. Urothelial Atypia
- 7. Urothelial Carcinoma
- 8. Uncommon Primary Neoplasms
- 9. Upper Urinary Tract Lesions
- 10. Metastatic and Secondary Cancers
- Index
Product Details
- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Demos Medical; 1 edition (2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933864664
- ISBN-13: 978-1933864662
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 9 x 0.6 inches
List Price: $135.00