1st Edition

Clinical Pathology of Urological Tumours

Edited By Gregor Mikuz Copyright 2007
264 Pages 319 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

254 Pages
by CRC Press

With increasing emphasis on the early diagnosis and management of urologic tumours, it is imperative that the practising urologist comprehend the relevance of the morphology for the clinical diagnostic and therapy. Moreover, the clinician should be fully informed of the importance of modern morphological methods (PCR, FISH, CGH etc) for the diagnosis and management of urological tumours.... Read more

Section 1. Renal tumors. Part 1. Epidemiology, etiology, and clinical history. Part 2. Pathology.  Part 3. Tumor genetics.  Part 4. Differential diagnosis and use of ancillary methods for diagnosis.  Part 5. Principles of staging and grading.  Part 6.  Pediatric tumors. 
Section 2. Adrenal glands. 
Section 3. Pathology of tumors of the urinary bladder. 
Section 4.  Prostate cancer origins, diagnosis, and prognosis in clinical practice. Part 1. Proposed neoplastic lesions and conditions. Part 2. Atypical small acinar proliferation suspicious for but not diagnostic of malignancy. Part 3. Clinical features of prostate cancer. Part 4. Methods of tissue diagnosis of prostate cancer. Part 5. Diagnostic criteria for prostate cancer.  Part 6. Histologic classification of carcinoma of the prostate.  Part 7. Current clinical practice of Gleason grading of prostate cancer.  Part 8. Clinical significance of treatment effects.  Part 9. Prognosis of prostate cancer.  Part 10. Inherited susceptibility, somatic gene defects, and androgen receptors.  Part 11. Rare forms of tumors.  Part 12. Non-epithelial tumor-like conditions and tumors of the prostate stroma.  Part 13. Miscellaneous, secondary, and lymphoid tumors of the prostate. Part 14. Appendices.
Section 5. Tumors of the seminal vesicles.
Section 6. Tumors of the testis and paratesticular structures.  Part 1. Germ cell tumors.  Part 2. Intratubular germ cell neoplasia, unclassified (IGCNU).  Part 3. Germ cell tumors of one histologic type.  Part 4. Embryonal carcinoma.  Part 5. Tumors of sex cord gonadal stroma.  Part 6. Miscellaneous tumors of the testis.
Section 7. Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis.
Section 8. Handling of surgical specimens.
Section 9. Pathology of tumors of the renal pelvis and ureter, and the urethra.

Biography

Gregor Mikuz