Main 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.