Customer Reviews

Essentials of Anatomic Pathology

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For anyone interested, this 2nd edition is divided into 2 sections: General Pathology and Organ Systems. General Pathology covers: Molecular Pathology, Human Genetic Disorders, Forensics, EM, Transplantation Pathology, Cytology. Organ Systems has the following chapters: Neuropath, Lymph node, Spleen, Bone marrow, Neoplasms of Skin/Immunodermatology, Non-neoplastic skin, Endocrine, Bone and Joints, Soft Tissue, Salivary gland tumors, Head and neck, Eye pathology, Mediastinum/Thymus, Cardiovascular path, Lung, Breast, Vulva/vagina, Uterus/FT, Ovary/Peritoneum, Placental disease, Non-neoplastic renal, Renal Tumors, Urinary bladder, Prostate, Testis, Penis, Esophagus/Stomach, SI/Appendix/Colon/Anus, Pancreas, Non-neoplastic liver, Neoplasms of the liver and biliary system.

Ok, now for my review: I really think this is a great book! While it would have been nice to have all color photos (which would make the book more expensive), the black/white pictures are of high quality. (There is a CD of all the images in color included with the book.)

The book really does condense what you really need to know in Anatomic path to the essentials. The organization of information for each entry is excellent. For almost every entry, the info is subdivided into Clinical and Microscopic. Where appropriate, additional subheadings are included, such as Macroscopic, Immunohistochemistry, Cytogenetics, and Differential Diagnosis. In addition, some of the common variants for some entities are also included!

This format reminds me of the Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology book, which is also excellent. What is great about the Essentials of Anatomic Pathology book is that it includes not just surgpath, but also other pathology subjects(like forensics, EM, molecular, cytology, and cytogenetics). There is also extensive coverage of Hemepath.

Overall, I think this book is ideal not only as a quick reference book but also as a review book for the pathology boards. I highly recommend it!

Perhaps my only request for the next edition is that COLOR images be incorporated into the text. I'd rather pay more to get the color images incorporated than to have them in a separate CD. With color, this book would probably be one of the best review books for Anatomic pathology out there.

This is one of several outlines available for purchase in book form covering anatomic pathology. Essentially, what you are purchasing is a nice set of review notes for boards preparation. This multiauthor book like all texts has some chapters that are stronger than others. Some authors (particuarly breast) have let their own classification schemes come out--for better or worse (but a book like this just doesn't have room for lengthy debates on fine points). The chapters "essentially" follow Rosai's textbook, and the strongest asset is it's numerous tables. Expensive, but I think it's better than its direct competitors.

The authors of this review book present, for the most part, a masterfully condensed outline of vital concepts in surgical pathology, while providing very useful additional material on molecular pathology, microbiology, hematopathology, and other topics not traditionally considered part of surgical pathology.

I deny this work a fifth star because, despite the generally laudable efforts of the authors, there runs throughout the book an undeniable, if fairly subtle, thread of carelessness. A few sections appear to have been half-heartedly written, with only superficial attention given to important concepts. For some of these, such as the vasculitides, other review books or general textbooks of pathology should be consulted. Also, with few exceptions, the chapters are thickly strewn with grammatical, orthographical, and punctuation errors of every description. While many readers may find this insignificant (it certainly doesn't seem to have been important to the editors), I feel that it does make for tiresome reading at times, particularly as one tries to decipher double meanings created by the omission of some critical word or symbol. Also, it is hard to believe that people so educated and (presumably) so professional as the authors of this book - people who are experienced in writing papers - should make so many writing mistakes. One wonders how much pride the editors really took in their work.

All this said, the overall quality of this book does not suffer greatly on account of these flaws. However, as it deserves to live on in a third edition, I would recommend that those sections be rewritten that fall short of the high standard set by the remainder of the volume. Also, editors should be hired who can impart a more professional polish. A work as praiseworthy as this one should be free of mistakes that are as embarrassing as they are completely avoidable.

I found this book is very useful even on my daily practice of cytopathology. I use this book very often for quick reference. I also recommend to our residents highly. The second addition is certainly more helpful than first edition with inclusion of over 2000 pictures, although the pictures are in b/w.

This book contains high-yield information in well organized format. The addition of photographs improves it over the first edition. I recommend it for any pathology resident.

Billed as a overall review book for anatomic pathology, this book is a snore. I will say there are many chapters with useful summary tables and the information contained is for the most part up to date and accurate. However, the outline format is monotonous and laborious to read, there are no images, there is no index at the end, there are rarely percentages by immunohistochemical stains, and there is no use of bold or italics to highlight what is really important in the text. This book has the overall feeling of an amateur writing team which I suspect most residents and practicing pathologists will not find very useful.

I generally like this book because it is covers broad topics in an easy to read outline format with plenty of microphotographs. I think a few parts are weak, leaving out vital information like molecular aspects for specific tumors. Occasionally there is an error, for instance, in the esophagus chapter, the headings of the tables on page 1684 are reversed. Those things are minor and I would give it four stars if not for the endocrine chapter. Virtually all of the microphotographs don't match the text or the captions. There are gross pics where micro should be, thyroid tumors where there should be adrenal. Very sloppy editing.

This book is a premiere resource for your pathology residency training and in preparation for the Anatomic Pathology Board. Lets be honest, sometimes you just don't have the time to read Rosai or Sternberg's for everything, although you always try. This book gives you the pertinent information that you need in an efficient bullet-point manner. However, it should not be used as your sole source of information during training. I find the tables very helpful and the differential diagnosis sections are great as it reminds you of the other pathological mimickers that need to be considered and how to rule each out of the differential. Are you really going to read a full surgical pathology textbook to study for the Anatomic Pathology Board? If you are, good luck and for the rest of you, just get this book to direct your studying and you will not regret it. It also comes with a CD, which can be used for images in power point presentations to medical students when you need a quick picture. Furthermore, the chapter on electron microscopy is excellent and in my estimation, one of a kind for a source of information regarding ultrastructure. This chapter alone is worth the purchase of the book. One detractor of the book is that all the images are in black and white, which saves money on cost. This book is so good that I would pay a lot more if it had those images in color and hopefully the new edition will. There also appears to be a few mistakes and some inconsistent information in the second edition when compared to other standard textbooks, which I hope will be rectified in the upcoming 3rd edition.

I am a PGY2 resident in pathology, and this book has proven to be an invaluable addition, it is an excellent review and quick reference book.
The only drawback, is that the pictures are black and white and there are some misspellings in the text.
I strongly recommend it.

This book start our with outline format and good for handy quick review. Now it became a 1800 some page ONE BIG HEAVY book that you can barely carry, not handy at all.
It should have just update molecular, cytogenetic and new immunohistochemistry for the entities. why put so many color pictures? especially immunohistochemistry color pictures? and for cytology and forensic, why go so detail to put pictures? Or should just split into two volume book.