Wojciech Golusinski
(Editors),
Springer Nature, 2024.
ISBN: 9783031676741
The ENT region is of great anatomical complexity. The proximity of tissues of different origin, a specific clinical terrain and the presence of organs exposed to viruses and other aggressive agents mean that this region presents a great variety of lesions of different nature: inflammatory, benign tumors and malignant tumors can present overlapping clinical, radiological and pathological characteristics.
In addition, this richness (diversity) of presentation is the source of “hyperspecialization” in the involved medical specialties. There are specialists for the thyroid gland, salivary glands, connective tumors or, finally, the upper aero-digestive tract. As much as some chapters of this pathology can be quite common, others can be extremely rare and therefore more difficult to diagnose.
There is a simple explanation for this: the diagnosis of rarer, more complex and more difficult lesions is more easily managed by centers specialized in this field. In an attempt to cover this complicated field of pathology, we have invited leading specialists engaged in diagnosis to cooperate.
First, the former President and the former General Secretary of the European Federation of Cytology Societies, the former President of the European Head and Neck Society and the current head of oncological surgery at the Institut Curie in Paris represent the four Editors. The introduction was written by Prof Andrew S. Field, from the University of New South Wales, former President of the International Academy of Cytology as well as Prof Fernando Schmitt, from the Medical Faculty, University of Porto, current president of the International Academy of Cytology, both widely implicated in the IAC WHO IARC Joint Standing Editorial Board for the publication of the so-called “Blue Books” (i.e international systems for reporting cytologies).
The chapters were entrusted to specialists in the different fields coming from numerous Centers and prestigious universities. Chapters in clinical, radiology, nuclear medicine, virology, immunohisto/cytochemistry, molecular biology, dermatology, and ophthalmology offer an original scientific approach of these Head and Neck lesions. In seeking the objective of clinical objectivity and usefulness, we treated classical pathology and cytopathology techniques equally. Scientific arguments in favor of one technique or the other were shown and discussed. We are aware that different oncological centers have their own diagnostic methods and we tried to unite them, discussing and showing the advantages of other experiences.
In hopes that all of this will serve our patients and that they will benefit from modernity and efficiency in medicine in 2025.
Prof J Klijanienko
Ass Prof B Cochand-Priollet
Dr Olivier Choussy
Prof W Golusinski