Full Description
Tumors and Cancers: Endocrine Glands - Blood - Marrow - Lymph provides succinct reviews of neoplastic growths disrupting normal functions of affected structures. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
Contents
Introductory remarks. Endocrine System. Adrenal Tumors. Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors. Parathyroid Tumors. Pituitary Tumors. Thyroid Tumors. Carney Complex. Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Mahvash Disease. McCune-Albright Syndrome. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia. Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome. Hematopoietic and Lymphoreticular Systems. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN). Mastocytosis. Myeloid/Lymphoid Neoplasms with Eosinophilia and Rearrangement. Myelodisplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MDS/MPN). Myelodisplasic Syndrome (MDS). Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasms (BPDCN). Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage (ALAL). B- and T- Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma (ALL). Mature B-Cell Neoplasms. Hairy Cell Leukemia. Mature T and NK Neoplasms. Hodgkin Lymphoma. Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD). Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasms. Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma.
