Prostate Biopsy Interpretation provides comprehensive, current information on the classification, clinical features, prognosis, and evaluation of difficult and unusual as well as common lesions.

Coverage includes normal, inflammatory, tumor-like, benign, and malignant conditions.This edition contains more tables to aid in differential diagnosis of similar lesions.

Prostate Biopsy Interpretation has new information on the Gleason grading system...predictive factors on needle biopsy...ancillary studies that can be performed on a needle biopsy...significance of ductal adenocarcinoma on needle biopsy...treatment effect on prostate cancer and its prognostic significance...use of newly described antibodies...the new classification system for stromal tumors of the prostate...and clinical parameters as they relate to needle biopsy findings.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 1,700 full-color images--all with detailed legends and 100 with checklists of points in favor of and against a cancer diagnosis.

Contents:

1. Clinical Correlates with Biopsy: Serum Prostate-specific Antigen, Digital Rectal Examination, Transrectal Ultrasound
2. Needle Biopsy Technique, Tissue Sampling, and Processing of Needle Biopsy and Transurethral Resection Specimens
3. Gross Anatomy and Normal Histology
4. Inflammatory Conditions
5. Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Its Mimickers
6. Diagnosis of Limited Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate
7. Mimickers of Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate
8. Reporting Cancer: Influence on Prognosis and Treatment
9. Grading of Prostatic Adenocarcinomas: the Gleason System
10. Findings of Atypical Glands Suspicious for Cancer
11. Prostatic Duct Adenocarcinoma
12. Neuroendocrine Differentiation in the Benign and Malignant Prostate
13. Mucinous Differentiation in the Benign and Malignant Prostate
14. Benign and Malignant Prostate Following Treatment
15. Transitional Cell Carcinoma
16. Mesenchymal Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions
17. Miscellaneous Benign and Malignant Lesions
18. Prostatic Urethral Lesions

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