Small Volume Biopsy in Pediatric Tumors: An Atlas for Diagnostic Pathology

Description

This richly illustrated book will help presurgically diagnose pediatric/young adult tumors. The content is divided into two parts. The first part shows step-by-step how to perform a small volume specimen such as fine needle aspiration/core needle biopsy and how to correlate the morphology with the clinical, radiological, and/or molecular information. In turn, the second part presents a comprehensive overview of the various tumor entities. The content represents diagnostic modalities from the major diagnostic centers worldwide, and is supplemented by the authors` 25 years of experience in diagnosing pediatric tumors. This book will successfully guide practitioners, researchers and oncology pediatricians through the process of sample harvesting and diagnosing. Pediatric tumors represent a large variety of lesions including pseudotumors of inflammatory and non-inflammatory origin, various types of lympadenopathy, benign lesions, specific sarcomas, and blastemal malignancies. These age-specific and histotype-specific tumors of various origin, evolution and prognosis are often characteristic in morphological and molecular levels, making their diagnosis highly specialized. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi General Considerations (Jerzy Klijanienko, Sarah Cohen-Gogo, Marie Louise Choucair, Daniel Orbach, Cécile Cellier, Hervé J. Brisse et al.)....Pages 1-58 Infectious and Non-infectious Tumor-Like Lesions (Michel Huerre, Živa Pohar Marinšek)....Pages 59-135 Round Cell Sarcomas (Živa Pohar Marinšek)....Pages 137-169 Blastemal Tumors (Jerzy Klijanienko)....Pages 171-204 Low-Grade Superficial Connective Tumors (Henryk A. Domanski)....Pages 205-243 Non-round Cell Sarcomas (Henryk A. Domanski, Jerzy Klijanienko)....Pages 245-265 Miscellaneous Epithelial and Epithelial-like Tumors (Roque Gabriel Wiseman Pinto, Živa Pohar-Marinšek)....Pages 267-288 Thyroid Tumors (Tatiana Poloz)....Pages 289-304 Lymphomas in Children and Adolescents (Ambrogio Fassina, Emanuele S. G. d’Amore, Lorenzo Nicolè, Rocco Cappellesso, Živa Pohar Marinšek)....Pages 305-323 Pediatric Tumors of the Central Nervous System: Cytopathology (Alexandre Vasiljevic)....Pages 325-347 Back Matter ....Pages 349-357