Histology

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Which Histology Textbook do you recommend? What is the best way for learning and recognizing histo slides?

 

[IHeartNerds]

I and most people in my class liked Wheater's Atlas of Histology, which has just enough text and mostly big pictures. The only problem is that they spell everything in British english, so you might wig out the first time you read "oestrogen" or "oesophagus"...

 

[Dr Roboto]

Check out shotgun histology on youtube.

 

[Jolie South]

we use Junquiera at my school. i think the text is pretty good and there are a lot of pictures.

 

[docnaan]

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[Dirt]

I use Ross.

There are a couple of good sites online as well, check out the sticky at the top of this board.

 

[shreypete]

I second Junquiera. It was a bit hard in the beginning coz every page seems to be loaded with tons and tons of important details but once you learn how to read the book...it's quite good. You can supplement it with Wheaters of DiFoires Histology atlas.

 

[nihaonihao]

I have Junquiera and recommend that for information. For nailing images, I recommend the Blue Histology website which has ~300 images and quizzes you on it. Their images are available for free educational stuff so it's no problem to copy them for studying.

tres important sidenote-- the Blue Histology images were made into 2 Android apps. They're called 'histology flashcards: tissues' and 'histology flashcards: organs'. They're free. Score.

 

[NK Cell]

I found 'The Color Atlas of Histology' by Gartner and Hiatt extremely helpful; there are a lot of pictures and explanations. Learning the characteristics and morphologies of each cell, drawing the histological slides myself and looking at them often worked out for me.

 

[alamo4]

Check out shotgun histology on youtube.

Dr. Minarcik who was a longtime pathologist, took early retirement from clinical practice after some long, drawn out lawsuits over billing on pathology reports for placentas, and now produces all kinds of online pathology educational content. There are literally hundreds of videos, both on the main website and all over YouTube:

http://medicalschoolpathology.com/

There is a whole class based on the first few chapters of Robbins:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2EF59E51C51B8124

This is an obscure reference, but the 12th Chapter of Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists by Rekhtman & Bishop has a really cool guide to the way things are described on the slide. It's like a picture dictionary of slide features. It maybe sounds cheesy, but I sometimes feel like pathologists are tripping when they describe something. The whole rest of the book is about how to grade different kinds of tumors, but I really liked that one part. Anyway, you can look at it here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ca...ossary of Histopathologic Descriptors&f=false

 

[Lbgem]

Which Histology Textbook do you recommend? What is the best way for learning and recognizing histo slides?

The BU histo website also listed at the stickied post in this forum. The thing that helped me the most (I went from failing the class to getting A's on the tests after changing methods) was labeled slides. I think it's really tough to find something when you have no idea what it looks like.

So like the BU website you can click label/unlabel and then you recognize oh hey this is the basement membrane, these are the endothelial cells/etc. So when you look at your own slide you have an IDEA of what you're looking for, so it's not a complete shot in the dark. I do have the Wheater's books, it's alright as a reference tool. Usually your school will have a syllabus. I'd use that first then use Wheater's if you need more clarification. You just have to keep looking at the slides until things start seeming familiar.

Oh! One more thing - probably also in the stickied tab - was Blue's (australia school i think) histology website with quizzes. Those were awesome and helped me a bit. GL.