Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology and Diagnostic Pathology Series

[KeratinPearls]

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Any opinion on these books? The former seems pretty pimp. I briefly glanced at the Diagnostic Pathology series and it seemed to have lots of small pictures with captions.

 

[bluesdude]

I've got the Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology and I use it often. It's very well organized and has good quality photos. The writing is to the point.

I'm not familiar with the Diagnostic Pathology Series.

 

[gbwillner]

Any opinion on these books? The former seems pretty pimp. I briefly glanced at the Diagnostic Pathology series and it seemed to have lots of small pictures with captions.

I had the old differential DX book. I hated it. I could never find a time that it was useful. The flowcharts are limited to a few features that may be ambiguous in your specific lesion, and the number of entities covered was not sufficient for me. The best thing about this book was that I was able to get $40 for it on Amazon.

On the otherhand, I find the DX pathology series to be very helpful. Not all the books in the series are great, but many are. For the most part, they give you all the pertinent clinical, histological, immunohistochemical, gross, and DDX for all the important entities. Probably the best feature of these books is the layout- entities are divided up into reactive/inflammatory, B9 neoplastic, and malignant neoplastic for each organ system. They are also very readable, and don't bog down in non-essential information, so they can be used for reference or just to read through. I find the images to be very good, especially in the newer volumes.

I have many of the books in this series. The ones I like best are Head and Neck(no thyroid though!), Bone & ST, Dermpath, and Hematopathology. Actually, I looked at all the common dermpath books (Rapini, Weadon, etc.) and I thought this was definitely the best resident book. The GI book was good for lumenal GI, but the liver section is severely lacking and I had to use Odze often (that's a great book BTW). I've heard GU and neuopath are good, but haven't gotten to those yet. I don't have the breast or lung books. The only one I really would NOT recommend is the GYN book- the layout is different (it sucks) and its missing several common entities (I spent hrs trying to identify a hidradenoma since it wasn't in the book, and my attending picked up the slide and made the DX at 1x). The only complaint I have about this series as a whole is that the index is pretty much useless in all of the books. But if you can tell that your lesion is B9/malignant/reactive you'll know where to look.

 

[KeratinPearls]

I had the old differential DX book. I hated it. I could never find a time that it was useful. The flowcharts are limited to a few features that may be ambiguous in your specific lesion, and the number of entities covered was not sufficient for me. The best thing about this book was that I was able to get $40 for it on Amazon.

On the otherhand, I find the DX pathology series to be very helpful. Not all the books in the series are great, but many are. For the most part, they give you all the pertinent clinical, histological, immunohistochemical, gross, and DDX for all the important entities. Probably the best feature of these books is the layout- entities are divided up into reactive/inflammatory, B9 neoplastic, and malignant neoplastic for each organ system. They are also very readable, and don't bog down in non-essential information, so they can be used for reference or just to read through. I find the images to be very good, especially in the newer volumes.

I have many of the books in this series. The ones I like best are Head and Neck(no thyroid though!), Bone & ST, Dermpath, and Hematopathology. Actually, I looked at all the common dermpath books (Rapini, Weadon, etc.) and I thought this was definitely the best resident book. The GI book was good for lumenal GI, but the liver section is severely lacking and I had to use Odze often (that's a great book BTW). I've heard GU and neuopath are good, but haven't gotten to those yet. I don't have the breast or lung books. The only one I really would NOT recommend is the GYN book- the layout is different (it sucks) and its missing several common entities (I spent hrs trying to identify a hidradenoma since it wasn't in the book, and my attending picked up the slide and made the DX at 1x). The only complaint I have about this series as a whole is that the index is pretty much useless in all of the books. But if you can tell that your lesion is B9/malignant/reactive you'll know where to look.

Hey,

Thanks for the reply. I was actually talking about this series. I think you were talking about the Diagnostic Foundation Series edited by Goldblum.

http://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Pathology-Gastrointestinal-Published-Amirsys/dp/1931884269

Anyways, each book is pricey, 250-300 a pop.