Breast Pathology: Problematic Issues, ISBN-13: 978-3319286532

This book covers practical diagnostic issues in breast pathology, with special emphasis on areas which pose diagnostic difficulties. These include dealing with the gross specimens derived from patients treated with conservative surgery and those who had neo-adjuvant therapy before surgery. It also discusses how to deal with axillary lymph nodes, proliferative breast lesions, including DCIS, and problematic core biopsies, as well as fibro-epithelial, spindle cell, lobular, mucinous, metaplastic and papillary lesions, molecular classification of breast cancers, breast lesions in male patients and breast immunohistochemistry. There is a focus on unusual benign and malignant breast lesions and a large number of high-quality images help the reader diagnose difficult cases.

Breast Pathology: Problematic Issues is aimed at histopathology consultants and senior trainees who deal with breast pathology.

Sami Shousha, MD, FRCPath is Consultant and Honorary Professor of Histopathology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital site) and Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London. He was trained in Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London. He has been a Consultant Histopathologist at Charing Cross Hospital since 1978, currently dealing mainly with Breast Pathology. He is a member of the Training and Education group of the (UK) National Coordinating Committee for Breast Screening Pathology. He has been running the annual ‘Hammersmith Diagnostic Histopathology of Breast Disease’ for the last 15 years. His research is mainly concerned with breast pathology and he has more than 300 scientific publications including several invited review articles and book chapters.