Color Atlas of Nerve Biopsy Pathology

Color Atlas of Nerve Biopsy Pathology
By Shin J. Oh

• Publisher: CRC
  
• Number Of Pages: 296
  
• Publication Date: 2001-08-29
  
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0849316766
  
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780849316760
  
• Binding: Hardcover
  

Product Description:

As a professional working in the frontlines of tissue diagnosis and in
everyday practice, you need a reference that gives you practical
information in an easy-to-use format. Containing over 300 photographs,
micrographs, and line drawings, including over 60 color illustrations,
Color Atlas of Nerve Biopsy Pathology supplies a clear picture of
commonly used techniques for nerve biopsies. You get new diagnostic
techniques and clinicopathological correlations all in a framework
designed for quick reference and easy learning. Providing all the
practical information you need from A to Z, Color Atlas of Nerve Biopsy
Pathology describes how to: · perform a nerve biopsy · handle specimens
· process the nerve by frozen sections, by paraffin sections, and by
semi-thin sections The book delineates the general pathological
features of peripheral nerve disorders and the diagnostic capability
and limitations of the nerve biopsy. It details the typical
pathological features of each disease by presenting color photographs
and example cases that provide a brief clinical history and pertinent
electrophysiological and other laboratory data. The exhaustively
illustrated color format provides you with immediate information in
reaching a definitive diagnosis. Unlike other books on this subject,
this one contains frozen section materials, case histories, teased
nerve illustrations, and newly described neuropathies. The author
brings twenty-five years of experience in the lab and teaching to the
development of this atlas. In the lab or in the classroom, on the front
lines of tissue diagnosis, Color Atlas of Nerve Biopsy Pathology
provides you with the information you need clearly, concisely, and
conveniently.




Summary: Excellent review of nerve pathology.
Rating: 5

As a pathology resident and neuropathology fellow I find this book to
be extremely helpful. It is one of the very few and more recent
published books available in this area with numerous high-quality
pictures and sufficient information about a broad variety of nerve
diseases. The text is well written, clear and concise, and more
importantly, easy to read. The book is very useful for the pathologist
trying to introduce the techniques of sural nerve biopsy in the
laboratory. It goes over the biopsy procedure, histological processing,
staining fresh-frozen and paraffin sections, processing the nerve for
semithin and electron microscopy sections. It also talks about the
nerve fiber teasing procedure. It is an excellent resource for concise
summaries of the clinicopathological correlation hallmarks including
electrophysiological findings of a wide variety of conditions explained
based on several cases for each chapter, making this book a good
resource for neurology residents and fellows. In addition, there are a
number of handy summary tables in each section. The overall layout of
the book is clear and visually appealing. I strongly recommend this
book for those seeking knowledge in nerve pathology and clinical
correlations.



Summary: Interesting and Educational!
Rating: 5

I enjoyed "reading" and "studying" Dr. Oh's book, "Color Atlas of Nerve
Biopsy Pathology" very much. This book provides very useful information
to every neurophysiologist and neuropathologist for daily practice. In
fact, I learned practical tips on obtaining nerve specimens and nerve
fiber teasing, and on interpretation of nerve biopsy from this book.
Compared with other books on nerve biopsy, this book provides rich
information with many clinically oriented example-cases on various
neuropathies, such as vasculitic neuropathy, demyelinating neuropathy,
toxic neuropathy etc. We can first study case presentation of a brief
clinical history and electrophysiological findings, followed by case
analysis, nerve biopsy, finial diagnosis and author's comments. During
the reading, from clinical presentation to final diagnosis, I enjoyed
"learning" and "experiencing" the process of diagnosis with Dr. Oh.
Many tips on neuropathy written in the book should be worthwhile to
every neurologist for everyday practice.
I strongly recommend "reading", "studying" and "purchasing" this book.



Summary: Unique!
Rating: 5

Dr. Oh's book does provide basic concepts that every pathologist and
neurologist should know about nerve biopsy. In fact, this is the only
color atlas book available with up-to-date informations regarding nerve
biopsy, nerve teasing and semithin sections. It provides comprehensive
understanding of the various topics from the nerve biopsy procedure to
the interpretation.
There is also a clinico-pathological correlation of cases commonly
encountered in the clinical practice, which is rarely observed in other
books. Language is easy to read. Dr. Oh, with his wide experience, was
able to collect hundreds of pictures with varying examples from normal
biopsies to the most interesting diseases.
Among the various books which attempted to address the same issues, I
found Dr Oh's book most informative and clinically oriented. I enjoyed
reading it and learned many caveats on the nerve pathology. I strongly
recommend it.
Laís Regina Rocha de Carvalho,MD Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil


Summary: nerve pathology
Rating: 1

This book is an attempt to provide an overview of peripheral neve
pathology using color light microscopy photomicrographs of frozen,
paraffin, and, to a very limited degree, semithin and teased nerve
fiber preparations. I will not attempt to comment on the anecdotal
clinical cases nor on the electrodiagnostic data provided. From a
pathology standpoint, this book by Dr. Oh (not editor) falls far short
of its goal. Ignoring the troubling misspellings, inadequately
referenced and often controversial statements, figure and legend
miscorrelations, and illustrations of tissues other than nerve there
are numerous errors in the pathology. Space precludes a thorough
review. A most troubling recommendation is that the freshly biopsied
nerve is allowed to autolyze for 15 minutes, apparently at room
temperature, "for reducing contraction artifact". Lacking contractile
elements, nerves do not contract. They are very susceptable to
autolysis, crush artifact, and fixation artifact such as shrinkage from
hypertonic fixative. The illustrations contain, apparently nwittingly,
many of these artifacts partly resulting from the recommended
techniques. The preferred preparation for analysis, frozen sections,
are cut at 10 microns. Since most of the fine endoneurial structures of
interest are considerably smaller than 10 microns, much of the finer
details are difficult to analyze at this thickness. This is one reason
why 1 micron plastic sections are the standard preparations,
supplimented with well fixed 3 micron paraffin sections to facilitate
study of elements less obvious in plastic. There are many errors in
histological identification and a number of photographs are out of
focus. The index is very incomplete. I found it very unpleasant to
review this book, and cannot recommend it.