Lymph-Nodes Books

It was a fast delivery, and the book arrived in excellent condition. Its an excellent book for all the benign and malignant lymph node pathologies. One don't need any other book for review. Its a complete review with good pictures.

IOACHIM'S LYMPH NODE PATHOLOGY Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology

By Harry L. Ioachim, M.D. and L. Jeffrey Medeiros, M.D.

This is the 4th Edition of Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology that was published a few weeks before the WHO Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues, 4th Edition. Thus, an immediate question is why do we need another book if the "bible" of hematopathology has just been published? While the WHO book spans all areas of hematopathology, including lymph node, bone marrow and soft tissues, Ioachim's book is dedicated to lymph node pathology only. However, the WHO book deals only with neoplastic hematopathology, while Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology covers both neoplastic and non-neoplastic pathology, i.e., everything a practicing pathologist or clinician may encounter in a lymph node, with the additional advantage of detailed discussions on differential diagnosis and valuable historical perspective.

The WHO book is acknowledged as the "standard" of diagnostic hematopathology and it is authored by many leaders in the field, and its approach to classification of neoplastic diseases is considered up-to-date, reflecting the current understanding of pathogenesis and mechanisms of disease, and the book is used as a reference in clinical research. A major limitation is that the book is brief, appearing almost like an abridged version, and explanations or references to the knowledge it presents may not be self explanatory, and at times can appear as dogmatic, despite the inclusion of up-to-date references. Similarly, because of space constraints (I believe), the pictures are in general diminutive, the quality although good, it is not uniform, and details are not fully appreciated.

Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology is a beautifully done, comprehensive and an authoritative text that provides valuable discussions about the context of lymph node diseases, historical perspective where is needed, such as in the chapters on angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and histiocytic tumors, where previous versions and nomenclature are numerous, and much change has occurred in their understanding and classification in the last few years. Pictures of high quality are profuse and illustrations with detailed descriptions enhance the text. For example, I compared the number of pages and pictures dedicated to the chapter on angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma and found that the WHO book dedicated 3 pages and 12 (rather small) figures, while Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology used 13 pages and 28 (detailed) pictures. Similar to the WHO book, Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology has been extensively revised and for comparable chapters, the updated bibliographic references are essentially the same, as is the conceptual approach including the use of cutting edge technology such as gene profiling and comparative genomic hybridization. A hallmark of Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology is the comprehensive inclusion of chapters on non-neoplastic disorders, including infections, immune and metabolic processes, as well as erudite discussions on chapters dedicated to metastatic neoplasms in lymph nodes. An additional advantage is that Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology is full of valuable references and discussions of features encountered in the daily practice, not only related with histopathology, but with clinical, laboratory and other ancillary techniques currently used in clinical practice.

What I consider a significant drawback may be more a conceptual than a true deficiency. I would expect that a book of lymph node pathology would be synonymous with all lymphomas. However, several "lymphomas" are not covered, such as the extranodal lymphomas (with exception of the salivary gland), skin lymphomas (although mycosis fungoides is included), and a few others. This "deficiency" I believe is rather conceptual, since many lymphomas do not arise in lymph nodes and are mainly or purely extranodal. Another apparent, but not real deficiency, is that Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology uses as reference for certain discussions the 2001 WHO (3rd Edition) book rather than the 4th edition. However, as I mentioned, Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology goes beyond the 2001 WHO book and is updated equivalent to the WHO 4th Edition, so that the knowledge is essentially the same in both books. I found the index excessive and somewhat disorganized, with some entries redundant; for example breast carcinoma is under entries such as axillary lymph node, metastasis, adenocarcinoma, carcinoma, ductal, mucinous carcinoma, and metastatic breast carcinoma, metastatic breast lobular carcinoma. Other entries are not relevant; for example, "cervical" and "axillary lymph nodes" have many entries, and "collagen fibers" links to a collagen deposition in a case of sarcoidosis (page 205, Fig 38.7).

In summary, the book authored by Harry L. Ioachim and L. Jeffrey Medeiros covers the entire spectrum of neoplastic and non-neoplastic pathology that can be found affecting lymph nodes. The book is fully updated and enhanced by systematic discussions on differential diagnosis and prolific, high quality illustrations for each chapter. I believe that Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology, 4th Edition is truly a classic of lymph node pathology, and has a value equal, but complimentary to the 2008 WHO book. I highly recommend Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology to practicing pathologists, hematopathologists, pathologists-in-training, clinicians, oncologists and scientists.

The areas covered by the authors indeed help the diagnostic facilities of both junior and senior histopathologists. This Atlas is recommendable for the diagnostic work up of all lymph node specimens. The only negative point is to have more than one CD-ROM.....

fine needle biopsies are very essential for the diagnosis for cell abnormalities in patients care.

The authors described a nice algorithm to apply a sentinel node and radioguided surgery including data sheets on different sentinel lymph nodes detection in various diseases (such as in melanoma, breast cancer and parathyroid detection). In addition, description of a good gamma probe was mentioned generally without any bias. The book also described in detail the estimated dose of radiation during the procedure to the surgeons and pathologists and how to use good radiation safety practice.

In my opinion, this book gives a comprehensive view of the basic techniques of the new technology about radioguided surgery.

This is a well written account of one woman's trip and love of Vietnam. At most times it flowed but there were times were I would see myself skipping over pages that didn't interest me. I was actually a little sad of her use of her male friend that she was with her first long stay in Vietnam. Makes me sad to think of her being American, I sure hope we all do not think of people as usable. At least you'd think she'd of said she was sorry. Besides that it was a nice read, nothing that blows you away but it's a good waste of a rainy day!

I can't add anything to the other reviews other than to say that if you enjoy reading about westerners living in Asia you will like or love this book. You should also read "Catfish and Mandala" which comes from a totally different perspective, but is also memorable.

i loved every minute of reading this book. i was captivated by ms. sachs' tales of coming to terms with her discomfort in a very foreign environment where communication was almost impossible. her writing is clear and expressive and personal. i look forward to reading her next book, and hope that there are more to come.

This is simply one of the most stupendous travelogues I have ever read. In fact, I can't think of a better one. Read it!

Her writing style is so playful, amusing, charming, and sensitive. Her observation of the environment and culture is so acute. She brought alive the scenes, the sounds, the liveliness of Hanoi streets -- just like the classic Vietnamese novels that we had to read while in high school. I bought this book for my wife, previewed it and then finished it. Highly recommended.

A good book for a hematopathologist-beginner. Although it lacks some more schemes concerning general pathologic pattern changes in the lymph nodes, the perfect photograph images with the short text explanations are very helpful guidelining to an exact pattern recognition and diagnosis. I was surprised as I have not found any tables comparing the differential diagnoses and no italics in the text marking the most important diagnostic criteria. Nevertheless the figure legends do more or less stress on these criteria. To summarize: -perfect color images -good image legends -satisfying text -poor didactic.

Well organized book.
Chapters written by outstanding pathologists who know how to teach. Chapters by Dr. Medeiros (molecular genetics) and Dr. J Chan (reactive lymphadenopathies) are best you can find in those issues. Very useful even they were written 10 years ago. Follicular lymphoma by Harris is as good as always.
Chapters in PTCL is slightly disappointing but this is difficult areas. But you can still find useful informations that are not easily found in other books (except ES Jaffe's book which i guess is the best, even it is an old book).
Can't wait for the next edition. What take it so long ?!

I agree with Homer above that the book is no Ioachim text, but I use is as an atlas and quick reference. Although, I have criticized some books on amazon for being too superficial (useful for residents for not for practicing pathologists), I HAVE utillized this text.....I recommend it as a supplement to more complete texts!

This book is a basic introductory book for beginning residents and maybe useful for some general pathologists. It lacks a lot of detail needed if you regularly interpret lymph node biopsies. It is definitely not a replacement for Ioachim's book. The picture quality is mediocre. It does provide good summaries of all of the most common major reactive and malignant conditions involving lymph nodes. Overall more detailed review of lymph node pathology than a general surgical pathology book (Rosai or Sternberg) but lacks the detail of Ioachim's.

Caveat: contrary to what you might expect from the title this book is not about distant metastases, or non-squamous cell carcinomas. If you are looking for that, move on.

What this book does cover is the lymphatic spread of H & N SCC. It starts with a nice account of the anatomy and development of the lymphatics of the H&N. Further chapters cover aspects such as patterns of spread of different cancers, as well as some discussion about the (mainly) surgical approaches to dissection.

Should you buy it? That depends. If you are looking for a general account of dissemination of malignancy or of H&N SCC you will be better served with one of the more general texts. If you are after a more detailed account, and in particular a European approach to some of these issues, then yes.