It's that time again..... for BOOKS!

[gbwillner]

---

Members don't see this ad.

The end of the year is drawing near,
And next year's order, from a bounty of book funds, is around the corner.

So what are some of your favorite books
That I should buy, before my fund Kaputs???

 

[gbwillner]

I guess I will review my own books below for starters....

Baby DeMay........ Best reference book ever. Pictures are on the outside edges of each page for optimal page-flip/picture matching success. The text is succinct. If I knew anything about cytology I would claim I learned it all from this great book.

Histology for Pathologists (second-to-latest ed.). Waste of Money. Really useless. I bought it to learn normal histology, but it's mostly text about embryology.

Rosai and Ackerman Surgical Pathology (2004). Good overall reference for... everything, but by no means complete. And you sometimes tire of random opinions and lack of consistency between entries- e.g., sometimes you get a good immunophenotype and sometimes it is omitted. And the worst index of all time- stick to the table of contents to find anything.

Practice of Surgical Pathology- beginner's guide (Molvai). Great text for 1st years and for re-visiting a rotation you haven't seen in a while. It may not help with any one diagnosis but will make you feel better about what you're doing.

Hematopathology: Foundation in diagnostic pathology series (Hsi). Good review of all major hemepath related things. Bad binding. Includes benign stuff, giving it a leg-up on the WHO book. Unfortunately not updated for 2009, so all the re-classifications will not be present. I recommend it.

Washington Manual in surg path (2008). Great resource in a pocket-sized book, and if you wear a white coat it is perfect. If not, well, it's just OK. Pictures are all on-line, which can be good or bad, depending on how many you have available to you. Also recommend.

Robbins (2000 ed). Holdover from med school. Never look at it, but others seem to.

 

[deschutes]

More from the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series. The new WHO heme.

 

[pathstudent]

The new ODZE is excellent resident reading.

Foundations in Neuropath is a good NP primer.

 

[Aubrey]

The new edition of Sternberg (this July) will supposedly have full text and pictures available online, if you're into that sort of thing.

 

[gbwillner]

Thanks so far....

Upcoming rotations:

GYN
ENT
GI
FNA
Derm
Fozens

 

[Doctor Zaius]

Sternberg pwns for everything except for the cervix, lung tumor, and muscle bx chapters.

Fletcher's book is worth buying for the soft tissue chapter (by fletcher) and the several chapters written by John Chan (thyroid, LN, thymus, salivary, spleen)

Cibas and baby demay are different but equally good for basic cyto

WHO heme is all you'll ever need for neoplastic heme, foundations is decent for the benign stuff

 

[pathstudent]

Sternberg pwns for everything except for the cervix, lung tumor, and muscle bx chapters.

Fletcher's book is worth buying for the soft tissue chapter (by fletcher) and the several chapters written by John Chan (thyroid, LN, thymus, salivary, spleen)

Cibas and baby demay are different but equally good for basic cyto

WHO heme is all you'll ever need for neoplastic heme, foundations is decent for the benign stuff

It is worth pointing out that foundations in heme is now completely out of date for neoplastic.

 

[SLUsagar]

now that boards are finished and residency is near over, i'm looking to gather up a few books before starting my job in the upcoming month.

thoughts on Biopsy Interpretation Series, specifically the GI (Montgomery) and upper aero tract (Mills)???

I've read the prostate one (Epstein) -- awesome with great pics, and bladder (Amin) so so, ......

 

[deschutes]

Making my list too... anyone have comments on Peter Humphrey's Prostate Pathology book?

I know a first-year resident liked the GI book from the Bx interp series, for what that's worth. The one Amazon review only gives it 3 of 5 stars, and goes into why.

The breast Bx interp book however got two 5 star reviews. That was going to be my next buy.

Don't have Mazur's EMBx book yet, wanted to get that - just checked with bookstore and nothing new coming out on the horizon even though it's from 2004ish.

I thought about getting the new Sternberg, but I feel somewhat obligated to start branching out into subspecialty texts. Is there much utility for general texts once out of residency (I already have Rosai)?

 

[SLUsagar]

Making my list too... anyone have comments on Peter Humphrey's Prostate Pathology book?

I know a first-year resident liked the GI book from the Bx interp series, for what that's worth. The one Amazon review only gives it 3 of 5 stars, and goes into why.

The breast Bx interp book however got two 5 star reviews. That was going to be my next buy.

Don't have Mazur's EMBx book yet, wanted to get that - just checked with bookstore and nothing new coming out on the horizon even though it's from 2004ish.

I thought about getting the new Sternberg, but I feel somewhat obligated to start branching out into subspecialty texts. Is there much utility for general texts once out of residency (I already have Rosai)?

yo deschutes. as a GU guy myself, i'd say Humphrey's prostate book is an oldie but a goodie...but again it's super detailed for just prostate. If you're gonna be doing TONS of 'em i suppose it's a good reference, but for a good overall GU book i'd hold out until around USCAP timeframe, there's a new GU book due then (my GU mentor is an author), which includes a lot of bigboys including Amin etc. The L Chang GU book is waaaay too wordy without enough pics.
Like you, I also just bought the Mazur/Kurman EMBx book. I heard a lot about it, never had a chance to read it during residency, despite it's old age (2004 or 2005 i believe, 2nd ed) i think it'll be good, especially portable given it's size, can read it on trips etc.
re: gen text book, i'd hold off for now, at least that's why i'm doing. I've got my reliable sternberg (NOT new one), but think as a practicing pathologist you're better off getting ref book for now (i.e. GI Odze, new head and neck book by Wenig, etc.). THEN perhaps getting the new Rosai/Sternberg. That's my plan at least.