Surgical Pathology of the Head and Neck Volume 1, 3rd

Seven years have elapsed since the second edition of Surgical Pathology of the Head and Neck was published. During this interval there has been an enormous amount of new information that impacts on the daily practice of surgical pathology. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of molecular biology and genetics. Data derived from this new discipline, once considered to be of research interest only, have revolutionized the evaluation of hematolymphoid neoplasms and are now being applied, to a lesser extent, to the assessment of mesenchymal and epithelial tumors. While immunohistochemistry has been available for almost 30 years, it has not remained static. New antibodies are constantly being developed that expand our diagnostic and prognostic capabilities.
Although these new technologies are exciting, they only supplement and do not replace the ‘‘H&E slide,’’ which is, and will continue to be, the foundation of surgical pathology and this book particularly. This edition has been revised to incorporate some of these new technologies that further our understanding of the pathobiology of disease and improve our diagnostic acumen, while at the same time retaining clinical and pathological features that are not new but remain useful and important.