Reseña o resumen
Four pathologists at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland offer a plethora of illustrations to help dispel some of the misunderstanding about the implications of cytologic changes when diagnosing cancer of the bladder. Their immediate hope is to guide pathologists in the traditional morphologic diagnosis of urothelial cancer and other malignancies of the bladder and upper urinary tract. In the longer run, they provide a template for pathologists to select appropriate samples when the diagnostic menu becomes amplified by molecular and genetic markers of prediction and prognosis for patients afflicted with urothelial carcinoma. Among the topics are cystoscopic characteristics of urinary tract lesions, reactive conditions and infection of non-neoplastic lesions, urothelial atypia, uncommon primary neoplasm, and metastatic and secondary cancers.
Contents
Foreword; Preface; 1. Normal Urothelium, 2. Cystoscopic Characteristics of Urinary Tract Lesions; 3. Reactive Conditions; 4. Lesions: Infections; 5. Hyperplasia, Benign, and Borderline Urothelial Neoplasms; 6. Urothelial Atypia; 7. Urothelial Carcinoma; 8. Uncommon Primary Neoplasms; 9. Upper Urinary Tract Lesions; 10. Metastatic and Secondary Cancers; Index