Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vorwort

Preface

Several excellent and comprehensive textbooks have been written on breast pathology [1-5]. The magnificent book Problems in Breast Pathology [1] written by John G. Azzopardi, and two more recent great works by Fattaneh A. Tavassoli [4] and Paul P. Rosen [3] cover almost all aspects of classic and modern breast pathology. So why should one dare to write a new book on this subject?

Over the past few years, the Department of Pathology, Medical University Graz has organized annual intensive 5-day courses on diagnostic breast pathology in order to share the experience in this field and demonstrate and discuss several common diagnostic problems, including tumor-like lesions, intraductal proliferative lesions, variants of ductal and lobular intraepithelial neoplasias, papillary neoplasms, and a variety of infiltrating breast carcinomas. During these courses, it has been my constant experience that most practicing pathologists and pathologists in training appreciate receiving a precise summary of the diagnostic criteria for each entity combined with a brief and accurate discussion of the main differential diagnoses. In dealing with a variety of breast lesions in daily practice, surgical pathologists want and need to know the essentials of diagnostic breast pathology.

So, the idea to write this book gradually evolved from these diagnostic courses, with a main focus on the essentials. This book is therefore designed as a diagnostic aid for pathologists when they encounter common as well as unusual or even challenging and very difficult cases. In trying to achieve this goal, it was necessary to reduce the text but emphasize case presentations that deal with the described entities. Indeed, this book contains over 1,100 full-color illustrations demonstrating gross, histologic, cytologic, and immunohistochemical findings of common as well as challenging benign and malignant breast lesions.

I am most grateful to Dr. Fattaneh A. Tavassoli for her constructive comments, suggestions, and encouragement throughout the preparation of this book. I am indebted to the staff pathologists at the Department of Pathology, Medical University Graz, who have supported me during the preparation of this book. I am thankful to Drs. Helmut Denk, Manfred Ratschek and Wolfgang Öhlinger for their kind support. I would like to acknowledge the excellent assistance and expertise of Mrs. Andrea Kaps in preparing the photomicrographs. I would like to thank the staff of the publisher, Springer, in particular Mrs. Gabriele M. Schröder and Mrs. Ellen Blasig for their professional and efficient cooperation and consideration in the production of this book.

Once again, I would like to express my special thanks to my wife, Shokufeh Sodeifi-Moinfar, for her support and tolerance over the past three years.

Graz, Austria
November 2006

Farid Moinfar

References

1. Azzopardi JG. Problems in breast pathology. WB Saunders, London, 1979.
2. Page DL, Anderson TJ. Diagnostic histopathology of the breast. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1987.
3. Rosen PP. Rosen's breast pathology, 2nd edn. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2001.
4. Tavassoli FA. Pathology of the breast, 2nd edn. Appleton & Lange, Stamford, CT, 1999.
5. Tavassoli FA, Devilee P (eds). World Health Organization classification of tumours. Pathology and genetics. Tumours of the breast and female genital organs. IARC Press, Lyon, 2003

Klappentext

This abundantly illustrated reference work focuses on the essential information needed by pathologists in order to interpret breast lesions (tumors) appropriately. Particular attention is paid to the diagnostic criteria with systematic analysis of differential diagnoses. Value and limitations of immunohistochemistry as a diagnostic adjunct are demonstrated as well. Using a systematic approach, this book contains the fundamental information required to avoid misinterpreting breast lesions and thus the under or overtreatment of patients.

Moinfar
Essentials of Diagnostics
Breast Pathology
A Practical Approach

ISBN 978-3-540-45117-4

Reviews

From the reviews: "The pathologist-in-training and general pathologist will benefit from the addition of Dr Farid Monifar's Essentials of Diagnostic Breast Pathology: A Practical Approach to their personal library. The goal of this 470-page combination text-atlas is to serve as an efficient reference to both educate and update the practicing diagnostician through guiding the processing, microscopic analysis, and clinico-pathologic correlation of a wide spectrum of common and uncommon breast lesions. Monifar uses focused and captioned text describing more than 1100 full-color illustrations to aid in this challenging task." (Giovanna Crisi, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 298 (15), 2007) "This is a succinct and practical guide to diagnosis of breast disease with over 1,100 full-color illustrations demonstrating gross, histologic, cytologic, and immunohistochemical findings of common and challenging breast lesions. The text is short and precise and each disease entity is emphasized with case presentations. ... a nice addition to the existing breast pathology books as it stresses specifically the practical diagnostic essentials in breast pathology. ... written for practicing pathologists and pathologists in training who deal with breast pathology on a daily basis." (Fang Fan, Ph.D, MD, Doody's Review Service, March, 2008)