Effectively evaluate challenging GI biopsies with Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach to Non-Neoplastic Biopsies! Presented in a format that closely mirrors the daily sign-out process, this one-of-a-kind resource helps you interpret challenging cases by highlighting red flags in the clinical chart and locating hidden clues in the slides. You’ll be able to reach confident diagnoses efficiently with this patterns based “scope-side guide”.
Customer Reviews from Amazon :
Well, readers, now that we know how the first reviewer (a male pathologist) feels about women and specifically Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery (rather odd for a public Amazon review, don't you think?), let's talk about this lovely new textbook of GI pathology.
First of all, this is an atlas, so there are many, many more pictures than your typical text. There are 12 images of acute CMV gastritis; >20 images of normal variations in the small bowel; >20 of celiac/malabsorption; >30 of chronic colitis, etc. Each image is accompanied by an informative figure legend. For example: Figure 3.121 is in the section on medication injury. The image shows a high power view of crypts with abundant apoptosis. The legend explains that this is mycophenolate-induced injury, describes the confluent apoptotic activity, and gives a clinical scenario.
"Checklists" are the second useful feature of this atlas. Because the authors take a pattern-based approach to each entitiy (a reasonable way to organize pathologic entities, since we're all looking for patterns in our slides), each constellation of findings is described and given a differential diagnosis (a checklist). For example, there is a section on the "lymphocytic gastritis" pattern, which includes this checklist: infectious (Helicobacter, HIV), celiac, immune-mediated disorders (CVID, Crohn), Medications (ticlopidine, olmesartean,) and neoplasia. In my opinion, that's a very useful list to tick off when doing clinicopathologic correlation to provide good patient care. A sample of the other "checklists" in just the gastric section: reactive gastritis, acute gastritis, collagenous gastritis, gastric eosinosinophilia, gastric hyperplasia, and many more.
The final feature that I will mention in this review, and perhaps my favorite, is the "Sample Note." Here the authors provide an actual top-line diagnosis and note for the entity covered. Do you have a duodenum with increased intraepithelial lymphocytes but no villous blunting? There's a sample note for that. How about a possible syphilis proctocolitis? There's a sample note for that. Lichenoid pattern of the esophagus? There's a sample note for that. I always appreciate when experts in the field share their wording because clear communication is so important in our specialty.
I'll stop here and simply say that I think this is a good book for pathologists-in-training as well as practicing pathologists. Yes, it is succinct, and for that reason cannot be THE definitive text of non-neoplastic GI pathology, but that wasn't the authors' intent. Instead, this is an immensely practical book that I have pulled off of my shelf several times in just the past week.
This is surprisingly great! While sold as an atlas the author has wonderful well written text and sample dictations. Wonderful resource for residents wanting to understand GI pathology and great for those needing to teach GI path to others. Good job Dr. Arnold!
especially useful for those tip-of-the-tongue moments
The Atlas is a concise but sufficiently thorough reference book, especially useful for those tip-of-the-tongue moments, or for those uncommon (but not exceedingly rare) patterns one occasionally encounters.I believe this book will become a common reference for me similar to the Atlas of Gynecological Pathology or my copy of the latest Cytology by Cibas.
書名 Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology :A Pattern Based Approach to Non-Neoplastic Biopsies
著者 Christina A. Arnold, Dora M. Lam-Himlin, Elizabeth A. Montgomery.
索書號 WI17/A752/2015
出版者 Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 9781451188103
出版年 2015
Effectively evaluate challenging GI biopsies with Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach to Non-Neoplastic Biopsies! Presented in a format that closely mirrors the daily sign-out process, this one-of-a-kind resource helps you interpret challenging cases by highlighting red flags in the clinical chart and locating hidden clues in the slides. You’ll be able to reach confident diagnoses efficiently with this patterns based “scope-side guide”.
Customer Reviews from Amazon :
Well, readers, now that we know how the first reviewer (a male pathologist) feels about women and specifically Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery (rather odd for a public Amazon review, don't you think?), let's talk about this lovely new textbook of GI pathology.
First of all, this is an atlas, so there are many, many more pictures than your typical text. There are 12 images of acute CMV gastritis; >20 images of normal variations in the small bowel; >20 of celiac/malabsorption; >30 of chronic colitis, etc. Each image is accompanied by an informative figure legend. For example: Figure 3.121 is in the section on medication injury. The image shows a high power view of crypts with abundant apoptosis. The legend explains that this is mycophenolate-induced injury, describes the confluent apoptotic activity, and gives a clinical scenario.
"Checklists" are the second useful feature of this atlas. Because the authors take a pattern-based approach to each entitiy (a reasonable way to organize pathologic entities, since we're all looking for patterns in our slides), each constellation of findings is described and given a differential diagnosis (a checklist). For example, there is a section on the "lymphocytic gastritis" pattern, which includes this checklist: infectious (Helicobacter, HIV), celiac, immune-mediated disorders (CVID, Crohn), Medications (ticlopidine, olmesartean,) and neoplasia. In my opinion, that's a very useful list to tick off when doing clinicopathologic correlation to provide good patient care. A sample of the other "checklists" in just the gastric section: reactive gastritis, acute gastritis, collagenous gastritis, gastric eosinosinophilia, gastric hyperplasia, and many more.
The final feature that I will mention in this review, and perhaps my favorite, is the "Sample Note." Here the authors provide an actual top-line diagnosis and note for the entity covered. Do you have a duodenum with increased intraepithelial lymphocytes but no villous blunting? There's a sample note for that. How about a possible syphilis proctocolitis? There's a sample note for that. Lichenoid pattern of the esophagus? There's a sample note for that. I always appreciate when experts in the field share their wording because clear communication is so important in our specialty.
I'll stop here and simply say that I think this is a good book for pathologists-in-training as well as practicing pathologists. Yes, it is succinct, and for that reason cannot be THE definitive text of non-neoplastic GI pathology, but that wasn't the authors' intent. Instead, this is an immensely practical book that I have pulled off of my shelf several times in just the past week.
This is surprisingly great! While sold as an atlas the author has wonderful well written text and sample dictations. Wonderful resource for residents wanting to understand GI pathology and great for those needing to teach GI path to others. Good job Dr. Arnold!
The Atlas is a concise but sufficiently thorough reference book, especially useful for those tip-of-the-tongue moments, or for those uncommon (but not exceedingly rare) patterns one occasionally encounters.I believe this book will become a common reference for me similar to the Atlas of Gynecological Pathology or my copy of the latest Cytology by Cibas.
書名 Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology :A Pattern Based Approach to Non-Neoplastic Biopsies
著者 Christina A. Arnold, Dora M. Lam-Himlin, Elizabeth A. Montgomery.
索書號 WI17/A752/2015
出版者 Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 9781451188103
出版年 2015
