Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (Pattern Recognition)\u00a04th Edition<\/p>\n
It is often stated that anatomic pathologists come in two forms:
\n\u201cGestalt\u201d-based individuals who recognize visual scenes as a whole
\nand match them unconsciously with memorialized archives; and cri-
\nterion-oriented people who work through images systematically in
\nsegments and tabulate the results\u2014internally, mentally, and quickly\u2014
\nas they go along in examining a visual target. These approaches can
\nbe equally effective, and they are probably not as dissimilar as their
\ndescriptions would suggest. In reality, even \u201cGestaltists\u201d subliminally
\nexamine details of an image, and, if asked specifically about particular
\nfeatures of it, they are able to say whether one characteristic or another
\nis important diagnostically.
\nIn accordance with these concepts, in 2004 we published a textbook
\ntitled Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (PPPDA).
\nThat monograph was designed around a pattern-based method,
\nwherein diseases of the lung were divided into six categories on the
\nbasis of their general image profiles. Using that technique, one can suc-
\ncessfully segregate pathologic conditions into diagnostically and clini-
\ncally useful groupings.<\/p>\n
The merits of such a procedure have been validated empirically by
\nthe enthusiastic feedback we have received from users of our book. In
\naddition, following the old adage, \u201cimitation is the sincerest form of
\nflattery,\u201d since our book came out, other publications and presentations
\nhave appeared in our specialty and have used the same approach.
\nAfter publication of the PPPDA text, representatives at Elsevier,
\nmost notably William Schmitt, were enthusiastic about building a
\nseries of texts around pattern-based diagnosis in pathology. To this
\nend we have recruited a distinguished group of authors and editors
\nSeries Preface
\nto accomplish that task. Because a panoply of patterns is difficult to
\napproach mentally from a practical perspective, we have asked our
\ncontributors to be complete and yet to discuss only principal interpre-
\ntative images. Our goal is to eventually provide a series of monographs
\nthat, in combination with one another, will allow trainees and practi-
\ntioners in pathology to use salient morphologic patterns to reach with
\nconfidence final diagnoses in all organ systems.
\nAs stated in the introduction to the PPPDA text, the evaluation of
\ndominant patterns is aided secondarily by the analysis of cellular com-
\nposition and other distinctive findings. Therefore, within the context
\nof each pattern, editors have been asked to use such data to refer the
\nreader to appropriate specific chapters in their respective texts.
\nWe have also stated previously that some overlap is expected
\nbetween pathologic patterns in any given anatomic site; in addition,
\nspecific disease states may potentially manifest themselves with more
\nthan one pattern. At first, those facts may seem to militate against the
\nvalue of pattern-based interpretation. However, pragmatically, they do
\nnot. One can often narrow diagnostic possibilities to a very few entities
\nusing the pattern method, and sometimes a single interpretation will
\nbe obvious. Both of those outcomes are useful to clinical physicians
\ncaring for a given patient.
\nIt is hoped that the expertise of our authors and editors, together
\nwith the high quality of morphologic images they present in this
\nElsevier series, will be beneficial to our reader-colleagues.
\nKevin O. Leslie, MD
\nMark R. Wick, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (Pattern Recognition) 4th Edition
\nby Maxwell L. Smith MD (Editor), Kevin O. Leslie MD (Editor), Mark R. Wick MD (Editor)<\/p>\n
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