This richly illustrated book will help presurgically diagnose pediatric young adult tumors. The
content is divided into two parts. The first part shows step-by-step how to perform a small
volume specimen such as fine needle aspiration core needle biopsy and how to correlate the
morphology with the clinical radiological and or molecular information. In turn the second
part presents a comprehensive overview of the various tumor entities. The content represents
diagnostic modalities from the major diagnostic centers worldwide and is supplemented by the
authors` 25 years of experience in diagnosing pediatric tumors. This book will successfully
guide practitioners researchers and oncology pediatricians through the process of sample
harvesting and diagnosing. Pediatric tumors represent a large variety of lesions including
pseudotumors of inflammatory and non-inflammatory origin various types of lympadenopathy
benign lesions specific sarcomas and blastemal malignancies. These age-specific and
histotype-specific tumors of various origin evolution and prognosis are often characteristic
in morphological and molecular levels making their diagnosis highly specialized.
