Colorectal cancer: surgical pathology practice guidelines

Caro PATHfinder,

se può essere utile, voglio passarti un piccolo contributo sul cancro del colon.

Ti allego alcuni articoli di Quirke molto didattici che spiegano qual è il metodo e l'obiettivo del patologo nella diagnosi dei tumori del retto. Due articoli spiegano molto chiaramente tutte le possibili lesioni che vanno diagnosticate; un articolo guida nel report macroscopico e microscopico, un altro spiega bene qual è il significato del margine radiale nelle resezioni del retto e come va valutato.

Penso possa essere molto d'aiuto per tutti.

Ciao

Severo Campione, MD.

Quirke P, et al. Quality assurance in pathology in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis—European recommendations. Virchows Arch. 2011 Jan;458(1):1-19. doi: 10.1007/s00428-010-0977-6.

Vieth M, et al. Annex to Quirke et al. Quality assurance in pathology in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis: annotations of colorectal lesions. Virchows Arch. 2011 Jan;458(1):21-30.

Maughan NJ, Quirke P. Modern management of colorectal cancer--a pathologist's view. Scand J Surg. 2003;92(1):11-9. 

Quirke P, Morris E. Reporting colorectal cancer. Histopathology. 2007 Jan; 50(1):103-12.

Stout's guide to writing a scientific paper.

Da The autobiography  of Arthur Purdy Stout (Notes on the education of an "oncological" surgical pathologist) in Guiding the Surgeon's Hand, Rosai J, 1997. (p 252-253)

I first collect all the data necessary for the subject and review the literature by abstracting each paper I read [...] . My articles always consist of an  introduction  that tells the whys and wherefores and a historical review [...];  next comes an account of the data reported, including case histories; then a commentary on these pointing out subjects to be stressed, new interpretations, reasons for agreeing or differing with the conclusions of others; and finally a summary [...] I always striven for lucidity and simplicity of expression and have eschewed redundancy. [...] When collaborating with young resident  and others, I have had to struggle to make them cut out redundant material and stick to the essential. [...]  it has never disturbed me to confess to an error, although I have noticed  that others  find this hard to do . If these people have to change an opinion the tendency seems to be ignore their former publication [...]

Bibliografia:

Biografia di Arthur Purdy Stout  (Wikipedia )

Wells WA. Me write pretty one day: how to write a good scientific paper. J Cell Biol. 2004 Jun 21;165(6):757-8.

Audisio RA, Stahel RA, Aapro MS, Costa A, Pandey M, Pavlidis N. Successful publishing: how to get your paper accepted. Surg Oncol. 2009 Dec;18(4):350-6.