Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists

I love this book. As a medical student, it saved me a lot of time during my Pathology rotations trying to figure out what stains were relevant to my sample and why or what the results meant.

An invaluable book for common questions in surgical pathology. Great for residents and practicing pathologists.

The fonts are small and information is very dense. Organized in a sort of outline format. Finally had some information presented in a condensed fashion that helps me to understand things I didn't understand before. Overall, this type of handbook may not appeal to everyone, but I find it very useful.

The preview for this book is horrendous and useless. Why they include blank pages and complete INDEX as a preview is mind bogglingly stupid. Including the Table of contents is OK--gives you an overview of topics covered. What would be more useful is having 1st page of each chapter so you get a sense of the style and format of the topics covered.5 chapters are on immunostains alone--for solid and hematopoietic tumors1 chapter on special (non-IHC) stains1 chapter on predictive markers (Her2neu, BRAF, etc) for determining treatment2 chapters on grading and classification criteria for solid vs hematopoietic tumors2 chapters on tumor cytogenetics--solid vs hematopoeitic1 chapter on tumor syndromes & associations1 chapter on serology1 chapter Potpourri of quick tips/reminders on:-1 page on size criteria for microinvasion, micro-tumors, normal organ weight/size- Pattern of metastases- electron microscopy findings for certain tumors- fungal & viral histologic morphology- histologic descriptors of tumors (with cartoons & H&E pictures)Overall, a worthwhile book to have for people who have ADHD and don't want to read volumes of print to catch one nugget of important info.The format is good, but be warned--to compress all pertinent info into one page, the writing font is 8What's missing? A good chapter on skin, melanomas, and tumors. There are 2 pages on this topic, and it's very superficial and doesn't even capture the tip of the iceberg.

I ordered 2 copiessome pages were folded in one of these books