| Questions in Daily Urologic Practice: Updates for Urologists and Diagnostic Pathologists 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Oyasu, Ryoichi (Author), Yang, Ximing J. (Author), Yoshida, Osamu (Author) |
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ISBN: 443172818X ISBN-13: 9784431728184 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: The book provides practicing urologists and diagnostic surgical pathologists (and physicians in training) with immediately useful information in their patients' care. This intends to bridge the gap between pathologists and urologists by providing mutually important updated information. In the format of Question/Answer (Q/A), Professor Oyasu answers a number of questions from practicing and academic urologists, while reviewing the leading pathology and urology journals worldwide and extracted the updated information. This book covers many issues of which the clinician needs to be aware in regard to the pathology of tumors of the adrenal, kidney, urothelium, prostate and testes. This book is designed to be easy to review and to find the key answer. Each question is followed by a succinct answer and comments supported by references with generous use of full color photographs/illustrations. This series of Q/As is useful to a diagnostic surgical pathologist as well, in providing what urologists want to hear from him in his report. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Urology - Medical | Pathology |
| Dewey: 616.6 |
| LCCN: 2007940951 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 8.48" W x 11.01" (2.58 lbs) 287 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The principal role of the diagnostic surgical pathologist is to serve a patient by assisting the clinician in charge of the patient's care. In that capacity, the pathologist provides the vital informationthat should be directly and indirectly useful in guiding the clinician toward the most appropriate therapy. The material pathologists receive most commonly is a biopsy or a part of an organ removed after a definitive pro- dure. To extract useful information, pathological evaluation proceeds according to a set of guidelines. Simply reporting a diagnosis of cancer is inadequate. Detailed additional information is needed so that the clinician can go on to establish a the- peutic plan as needed. To best serve the patient, close interaction between the cli- cian and the pathologist is vital. In the field of urological pathology, there are problems specific to this system. Typically, in the prostate, because of its location, there is little room for a surgeon to work to obtain adequate resection margins, unlike with many other organs. As a result, questions arise such as "What constitutes an adequate surgical margin?" "What is the significance of extraprostatic extension of neoplasm that is still inside the resection margin?" and "What is the significance of neoplastic glands found on the resection margin marked with the ink?" It has been shown that a prostate needle core biopsy can generate much information that is immediately useful in predicting the extent of cancer in the prostate and, consequently, the outcome for the patient |
