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Previous Volume 351:516 July 29, 2004 Number 5

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Edited by Ricardo V. Lloyd. 421 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2004. $175. ISBN 1-58829-208-8.

As in many areas of surgical pathology, the field of endocrine pathology is rapidly evolving from a purely descriptive discipline into one that is increasingly based on principles of cellular and molecular biology. Advances in our understanding of endocrine tumors over the past 25 years have been nothing short of extraordinary. To name but a few, these advances include the concept of the neuroendocrine system and its associated neoplasms, the roles of oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes in the pathogenesis of endocrine tumors, and the role of molecular testing methods in the diagnosis of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. In a multiauthored . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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