Customer Reviews

Biopsy Interpretation of the Breast (Biopsy Interpretation Series)

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This is an excellent book that is well organized, well written and beautifully illustrated. I have found this to be an extremely useful reference during the course of surgical pathology signout. Discussion of diagnostic problems in which I have been interested have been easy to find and clearly addressed. I think this is a "must have" book for practicing pathologists, pathology residents and pathology fellows. It is also likely to be a useful reference for clinicians involved in the care of patients with breast diseases.

This hard cover text book is an excellent resource for the practicing pathologist. The online text was great until January, 2011, when Lippincott took down what was an excellent, fast and efficient, online resource and replaced it with a miserably restricted version, which seems like a limited version of Amazon's "Click to Look Inside" function. The online reference text now displays just page by page. It can no longer be scrolled or printed. It can be searched, but its rudimentary search function merely returns a list (10 entries at a time) of every page on which the word appears, along with a 5-6 word sentence fragment for context (no chapter or section title). From that minimal information, I cannot figure out which is the pertinent entry for my query. It's faster for me to get up, get the printed text book off the library shelf, and look it up there.

This is an excellent book. It does not have a lot of blah blah ( you know what I mean!!) but it has all the necessary information to function as a resident and an attending. I really enjoyed it, as from a linguistic point of view is so well written. And tons of pictures. Recommended

I give this book a buy rating.

I don't really have anything bad to say about this book. I think the authors did a great job.

Schnitt and Collins showed restraint in their writing style, which I found concise and to the point. No useless philosophical musings or personal opinions clutter the text. To me it seems they focused on generally accepted points, while touching on some emerging issues but generally keeping to the facts and scientifically proven concepts. I just hate it when authors raise a contentious issue and then, instead of letting us know what is currently accepted safe standard of practice, list several opposing publications all of equal merit, leaving it up to us to choose which route to follow...fine if you don't have to actually sign out a case in a reasonable timespan and ensure valid and currently useful points are included in your report back to the clinician.

Key concepts are clearly communicated and there are ample micrographs of good quality and size to help demostrate particular diagnostic points. I particularly found the chapters covering columnar cell, epithelial proliferative and papillary lesions very helpful.

Another feature I like is the use of tables contrasting or summarizing key pionts at the end of some of the sections.

I think this book will appeal to residents in particular, and will be useful even to pathologists who wish to review relevant and key concepts when time is of the essence.