Thyroid Pathology

From The Critics

Reviewer: Francis H. Straus II, MD, MS(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This small hardcover book includes six chapters discussing newer aspects of thyroid lymphomas, c-cell carcinoma, histochemistry of thyroid tumors, minimally invasive follicular carcinomas, poorly differentiated carcinoma, and surgical strategies in papillary carcinoma. It also includes four more basic science chapters dealing with thyroid growth factors, the interrelationship between thyroid carcinoma and type I 5'-deiodinase enzyme, the transcytotic pathway of transported IgG to the apical membrane in autoimmune thyroid disease, and clinical aspects of thyroid hormone transport protein anomalies. In a sense, this book is really 10 separate review papers.
Purpose: This book presents newer aspects of thyroid surgical pathology and basic science above and beyond that available in standard texts for the better interpretation and understanding of specific thyroid topics. These are limited yet worthy objectives and the book is admirably organized to achieve these objectives.
Audience: The subjects covered limit this book's usage to endocrine pathologists, endocrine surgeons, and internal medicine thyroidologists. The authors are credible, mostly German with some Austrian, British and Japanese contributors.
Features: The book uses some illustrations, both black-and-white and color photomicrographs, graphs, tables and black-and-white drawings, ending with a moderate listing of references. There is a short subject index at book's end. The quality of the illustrations is good and the reference listings are variable depending on the chapter.
Assessment: This is a handsome, useful new book for those individuals and libraries that wish to have the most recent information on a selection of thyroid diseases and basic science topics. It is not for the generalist or the student preparing for textbook oriented examinations.

Francis H. Straus II

This small hardcover book includes six chapters discussing newer aspects of thyroid lymphomas, c-cell carcinoma, histochemistry of thyroid tumors, minimally invasive follicular carcinomas, poorly differentiated carcinoma, and surgical strategies in papillary carcinoma. It also includes four more basic science chapters dealing with thyroid growth factors, the interrelationship between thyroid carcinoma and type I 5'-deiodinase enzyme, the transcytotic pathway of transported IgG to the apical membrane in autoimmune thyroid disease, and clinical aspects of thyroid hormone transport protein anomalies. In a sense, this book is really 10 separate review papers. This book presents newer aspects of thyroid surgical pathology and basic science above and beyond that available in standard texts for the better interpretation and understanding of specific thyroid topics. These are limited yet worthy objectives and the book is admirably organized to achieve these objectives. The subjects covered limit this book's usage to endocrine pathologists, endocrine surgeons, and internal medicine thyroidologists. The authors are credible, mostly German with some Austrian, British and Japanese contributors. The book uses some illustrations, both black-and-white and color photomicrographs, graphs, tables and black-and-white drawings, ending with a moderate listing of references. There is a short subject index at book's end. The quality of the illustrations is good and the reference listings are variable depending on the chapter. This is a handsome, useful new book for those individuals and libraries that wish to have the most recent information on a selection of thyroid diseases and basic science topics. Itis not for the generalist or the student preparing for textbook oriented examinations.

3 Stars from Doody