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Presented in the renowned, fast-access format of other Washington Manual® titles, this excellent book is a practical guide to the clinical practice of surgical pathology. This valuable resource covers all aspects of surgical pathology for every organ and anatomic site, including gross examination and dissection; microscopic diagnosis of medical as well as surgical diseases; tumor classification; and tumor staging. Separate chapters are devoted to ancillary surgical pathology techniques, including immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, frozen section diagnosis, flow cytometry, DNA and RNA based molecular methods, and imaging technologies. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text plus an image bank of more than 2700 figures.
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 It's ok, June 23, 2014
By Linnyta
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I must admit when I bought this book I thought I was going to use it more, unfortunately I don't. Somehow it is a surgical oriented book that kinda gives you an idea of what to expect in an specimen but it lacks content in my opinion so you have to go back to a regular surgical pathology guidance book.
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 Useful manual, June 08, 2014
By margarita smirnov
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It is a very good manual but it has one disadvantage: you can see pictures only online. but I am satisfied with this book.
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An ok source but no pictures, really?, April 12, 2013
By A Customer
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This is a really handy desk top resources. Precise and to the point. The lack of pictures is a real downer for me though. The images are available online but the lww website is often down and the website also does not work on a mobile device like an ipad / tablet. The online images are good but the annotations are not great at all and its often a mission to marry an image with the relevant reference to it in the text. I know they were trying to limit the size of the print edition and all but I dont think this approach has worked at all.
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 excellent pathology book, December 15, 2011
By Steven Kramer (Philly)
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I am a 4th year medical student who is starting a pathology residency in July.
I picked up this book right before my 4th year to help me with my pathology clerkships. This book is small enough to fit in my white coat pocket, but detailed enough to cover every disease that was mentioned during my 4 week clerkship. How do they manage that? There are no pictures in this book; they are provided online with purchase of the book.
I have heard from residents who have taken the boards that you can pass by knowing everything in this book. Obviously I can't vouch for that yet, but that seems like a great endorsement of the amount of information contained in this 60 dollar book.
One note of caution if you plan to buy this soon... a new edition will be out in March 2012!
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Easy to read...go to book for surgical pathology, May 19, 2011
By JESSICA KOZEL
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Covers most things in surgical pathology. Especially good for PGY1/2s. Definitely not all-encompassing, but fits in your pocket. If you know everything in this book, you probably know enough to pass AP boards.
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Extremely useful, but image bank is insultingly bad, March 08, 2011
By Ombret
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As a scope-side reference, the Washington Manual is extremely helpful. Use it to remind yourself of the key features of an entity, or to develop a differential diagnosis. The text is well-written and the authors are all authorities in their field, except for a few residents who have crept in (sometimes as sole chapter authors).
There are some downsides. The book was published before the 7th edition AJCC cancer staging guidelines were adopted, so some staging information is now out of date (endometrium, for example). The text states in at least one place that the online version will be updated to reflect 7th ed AJCC when it comes out. Since that occurred in 2010 (and it's now 2011), I asked Lippincott about this and they told me explicitly: Uh, no, we decided not to do that. Sorry.
The major shortcoming, though, is the online image bank. Other reviewers have praised it, but accessing it requires several steps and navigating through it is clunky. The Flash applet for the image bank does not behave quite the way your web browser does, so it's frustrating to navigate around. It's impossible to view captions and images at the same time. The resolution of the images is too low for diagnostic use and the "zoom" feature just gives a pixelated digital zoom effect. Lippincott recently revamped their e-book platform and made the e-text exactly resemble the book pages, but bafflingly, the images are still not hyperlinked to the text. Under the right circumstances, these figures would actually be pretty good, so it's too bad that Lippincott made such poor use of them.
The authors could have made the book even more useful by focusing on "line diagnoses": now that you've decided what you have on your slide, how should you phrase your diagnosis? But this obviously will be a matter of local practice. Finally, I would personally venture to say that putting figures online only is an experiment that has failed. Lippincott, no one is actually trying to put this "pocket manual" in their pocket. So give the pathologist a little respect, kick the price and size of the book up a couple of notches and print the darn pictures with the text.
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