BREAST PATHOLOGY. PROBLEMATIC ISSUES

1. Dealing with the gross specimen
2. Handling Neo-Adjuvant therapy Specimens
3. Proliferative Breast Lesions
4. Problematic Core Biopsies
5. Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
6. Lobular neoplasia
7. Grading of invasive carcinoma
8. Fibroepithelial Lesions
9. Mucinous Lesions of the breast and expression of WT1
10. Spindle cell lesions
11. Papillary carcinomas
12. Metaplastic breast carcinomas
13. Metastatic lesions in the breast
14. Axillary Lymph node biopsies
15. A Practical Approach to the use of Immunohistochemistry in the Diagnosis and Management of Breast Disease
16. Molecular classification and testing of breast carcinoma
17. Uncommon benign breast lesions
18. Uncommon malignant lesions
19. Male breast lesions.

This book covers practical diagnostic issues in breast pathology, with special emphasis on areas which pose diagnostic difficulties. These include dealing with the gross specimens derived from patients treated with conservative surgery and those who had neo-adjuvant therapy before surgery. It also discusses how to deal with axillary lymph nodes, proliferative breast lesions, including DCIS, and problematic core biopsies, as well as fibro-epithelial, spindle cell, lobular, mucinous, metaplastic and papillary lesions, molecular classification of breast cancers, breast lesions in male patients and breast immunohistochemistry. There is a focus on unusual benign and malignant breast lesions and a large number of high-quality images help the reader diagnose difficult cases.
Breast Pathology: Problematic Issues is aimed at histopathology consultants and senior trainees who deal with breast pathology.

Features
• Helps practicing pathologists with practical problems they may face
• Explains how to deal with gross specimens that result from different surgical procedures
• Discusses the use of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of breast diseases

Author
Sami Shousha, MD, FRCPath is Consultant and Honorary Professor of Histopathology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital site) and Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London. He was trained in Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London. He has been a Consultant Histopathologist at Charing Cross Hospital since 1978, currently dealing mainly with Breast Pathology. He is a member of the Training and Education group of the (UK) National Co-ordinating Committee for Breast Screening Pathology. He has been running the annual 'Hammersmith Diagnostic Histopathology of Breast Disease' for the last 15 years. His research is mainly concerned with breast pathology and he has more than 300 scientific publications including several invited review articles and book chapters.