Encyclopedia of Pathology

1. 111In-Pentetreotide Scintigraphy

   • Niklaus Schaefer

2. 131I-MIBG Scintigraphy

   • Niklaus Schaefer

3. 18F-Fluorodopa (18F-FDOPA)

   • Niklaus Schaefer

4. Abnormal (Nonmolar) Villous Lesions, Pathology of the Placenta

   • Joseph Rabban

5. Abrikosov, Alexei Ivanovich (1875–1955)

   • Helmut Paul Sandeck

6. Abscess

   • Noëlle Weingertner, Jean-Pierre Bellocq

7. Achaete-Scute Homolog 1 (ASH1)

   • Stefano La Rosa

8. Acidophil Stem Cell Tumor, Pituitary

   • Sylvia L. Asa

9. Acinar Cell Carcinoma

   • Stefano La Rosa, Amedeo Sciarra

10. Acinar Cell Nodules

    • Irene Esposito, Lena Haeberle

11. Acinar Cystic Transformation of the Pancreas

    • Irene Esposito, Lena Haeberle

12. Acinar: Ductal Metaplasia

    • Irene Esposito, Lena Haeberle

13. Acinic Cell Carcinoma

    • Maria P. Foschini, Luca Morandi

14. Ackerman, Albert Bernard (1936–2008)

    • Elizabeth Raphaela Picciotti

15. Acquired Cystic Disease-Associated Renal Cell Carcinoma

    • Anna Caliò, Diego Segala, Guido Martignoni

16. Acromegaly

    • Annamaria Colao, Claudia Pivonello, Ludovica F. S. Grasso, Rosa Pirchio

17. ACTH-Producing Pancreatic Tumor

    • Silvia Uccella

18. Activin

    • Silvia Uccella

19. Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Related Neoplasms

    • Emily Mitchell, Emma Gudgin, Livia Raso-Barnett

20. Acute Pancreatitis

    • Anne Kraft, Matthias M. Gaida

This book presents a collection of short biographies and works of the pioneers in pathology, together with a brief history of the European Society of Pathology and the New York Pathological Society. Detailed information is provided on the development and current status of immunohistochemistry, light microscopy and dry preparations in medical education. The alphabetically arranged entries allow readers to quickly and easily find the information they need.

• Rudolph Virchow
• Robert Koch
• Guillaume Dupuytren
• Robert Feulgen
• Erasistratos

• NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands

  J.H.J.M. van Krieken

J.H.J.M. van Krieken is a pathologist with special expertise in the fields of
hematopathology and the pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. He was
professor for tumor pathology since 1999 and is since 2005 keeping the
chair of pathology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in
Nijmegen. He furthermore serves as Chairman of the Board of the Oncology
Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen.


He was the treasurer/secretary of the European Association forHematopathology from 2000 to 2008, and from 2003 to 2011 the treasurer,
and from 2013 to 2015 the president of the European Society for Pathology
(ESP); he is presently the past-president of the ESP. Furthermore, he coordinates
the ESP quality assessment program and is the chair of IQNpath. He is
(co)author of more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals (H-index 76),
has written chapters in books on pathology and oncology, is editor of a Dutch
textbook on oncology, and serves on the editorial board of the American
Journal of Surgical Pathology and the Journal of Pathology, is managing
editor of Virchows Archiv, and is the chief editor of the Journal of
Hematopathology. Since 2011 he is member of the German Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina, and since 2014 of Academia Europea and Honorary
Fellow of the Royal Society of Pathology of Great Britain and Ireland.

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