Muin S. A. Tuffaha

Phenotypic and Genotypic Diagnosis of Malignancies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carefully designed as an easy and quick reference, this desktop manual is for working pathologists who need to determine the particular type of cancer they are dealing with in a patient. To this end, the book contains many large tables of information to allow a fast analysis of results, providing all the relevant information to diagnose the full range of different tumors in humans.

Must-have content for all cancer pathologists.

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The first book to focus on this very practical aspect of pathological daily routine provides all the information needed to diagnose the full range of human cancers. Carefully designed as a quick and easy reference, this belongs on the desk of every practicing pathologist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-VCH
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9783527318810
• ISBN-10: 352731881X
• Artikelnr.: 23024414

Autorenporträt

Prof. Tuffaha obtained the honours degree in general medicine (MD) from the Medical Institute Kiev in 1986 before he passed the German Medical Board in Pathology (Facharzt). Afterwards he continued his carrier as specialist in pathology in the Institute of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Tuffaha was the deputy head of the Department of Head and Neck Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Hamburg, Germany before he became the Head of the Pathology Department and Director of the Laboratories in the Al-Amal Regional Cancer in Amman, Jordan from 1996 to 1998. In 2003 Tuffaha became director of the German Center of Laboratory Medicine in Amman, Jordan.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPharmacopathologyImmunophenotypic Profiles of TumorsCommon Antibodies Used for Tumor Diagnosis and Expression PatternsImmunohistochemical StainingNucleic Acids TechniqueDiagnosis of Tumors, Detection of Micrometastases and Circulating Tumor Cells by Molecular Detection of Specific Chromosomal TranslocationsDiagnosis of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Residual Tumor Cells by Molecular Detection of Gene RearrangementsDiagnosis of Tumors, Detection of Micrometastases, Isolated and Circulating Tumor Cells by Molecular Detection of Tissue Specific Gene ExpessionDiagnosis of Tumors, Detection of Micrometastases, Isolated and Circulating Tumor Cells by Molecualar Detection of Tissue Specific CytokeratinsDetection of Associated VirusesClassification of Malignancies and the Status of MinimalResidual Cancer Disease