Encyclopedia of Pathology

1. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH)

   • Annamaria Colao, Claudia Pivonello

2. Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma

   • Atsuko Nakazawa, Koichi Ohshima

3. Age-Related Changes

   • Irene Esposito, Lena Haeberle

4. Agenesis

   • Luisa Ingenhoff

5. Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy

   • Sara Pakbaz, Anjelica Hodgson, Ozgur Mete

6. Alcohol-Related Chronic Pancreatitis

   • Anne Kraft, Matthias M. Gaida

7. Aldrich, Robert Anderson (1917–1998)

   • Rossano Lattanzio

8. Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma

   • Marta Sbaraglia

9. Alzheimer, Alois (1864–1915)

   • M. Lamar Jones

10. Amalgam Tattoo

    • Jacqueline E. van der Wal

11. Amyloidosis in the Genitourinary Tract

    • Caterina Fattorini, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Maria Rosaria Raspollini

12. Anaplastic Carcinoma

    • Simonetta Piana

13. Anatomic Variants

    • Onur Bayram, Jörg Kleeff

14. Anatomy of the Pancreas

    • Eva Karamitopoulou-Diamantis, Beat Gloor

15. Androgens

    • Irene Porcari, Mariachiara Bosco, Stefano Uccella

16. Angiofibroma, Nasopharyngeal

    • Alessandro Franchi

17. Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma

    • Laurence de Leval, Bettina Bisig

18. Angiolipoma, Soft Tissue

    • Wolfgang Hartmann

19. Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma

    • Marta Sbaraglia

20. Angiomyofibroblastoma

    • Marisa R. Nucci

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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