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INDEX PAGE
This site is structured in 3 tiers. The first tier is HOME; it is a solitary chapter - there is no NEXT PAGE at level I.The second tier is devoted to textual chapters but includes this INDEX PAGE (c2at2). Three of the chapters at level 2 (c14, c15, and cx, [i.e., the first 3 chapters after the INDEX PAGE]) are parents for the Pictorial Chapters (i.e., the photomicrographs). Chapter 14 is the parent for 6 chapters, all of a pictorial nature. Chapter 15 is the parent for 7 similar chapters. Chapter X is the parent for one pictorial chapter. This arrangement influences the utility of the NEXT PAGE navigation bar at the end of each chapter. At level 3, this bar has relevance only for daughters of one of the parent chapters at level 2. To go to the next group of daughter chapters, there are other aids which will be identified at the end of the last daughter chapter of each group.
Navigation bars are present in the Master Border to the left and at the end of each chapter. Often, the reader will reach the end of a text, or of pictorials without having arrived at the end of the chapter; this is a peculiarity related to the software program and to the spacing of navigation bars along the length of the Master Border to the left. In a search for another set of bars, always extend the search to the end of the chapter without attention to the length of either the text or the pictorials. A click on one of the parent chapters at level 2 will enable additional navigation bars; a click on one of the additional bars will take the reader to respective Pictorials at level 3.
The INDEX MAP provides access to PICTORIALS at level 3. It also provides a brief characterization of the nature of the problems presented by the histologic patterns of each case. Highlighted items represent a link to a relevant set of PICTORIALS; a click on a highlighted item takes the reader to the appropriate set of PICTORIALS.
The Pictorials are nothing to brag about. They represent digitized, old photomicrographs. Unfortunately, the originals, even when new, were not much to brag about. I have used a variety of microscopes and cameras; some have been less than satisfactory; one had a stage that was not level. The material mostly was collected during the 1980’s.
I have been at the fringe of academic endeavors for as many years as I have been active in academic endeavors. If I return to Tulane this year (part-time), it will be the sixth time; I have been away from the school as long as I have been at the school (approximately 20 years for each). While out of the school, the practice of pathology has consumed my time (and me). I had to set things aside. Now, in putting things “in order,” I find pieces of possible projects that were never brought to fruition. I consider some of this material to be important. There would be no place for this material in the standard literature. Even book publishers have advanced the idea that an editor should dictate the style and the selection of material to be included in a contribution. I am to old to accommodate the rigid styles dictated by editors of journals and books. Much of the textual material at level II represents “afternoon” work while waiting for my secretary to finish typing reports. It represents piece-meal compilations of thoughts provoked by the current cases of the day. Even this material has the negative mark of an editor; I suggested to an editor that it might be published in a serialized form. He kept the manuscript for almost 2 years; I finally asked that he return it. I then did something else with it. I sometimes think that I see bits of it in the current literature, but there is no way to be certain. Since I am sharing it on the web (if anyone is interested), there is no need to continue to be concerned about where, or when, some of it might pop up. The material has evolved in stages; it is considerably different from the first 2 or 3 efforts; perhaps, it has been over-refined; perhaps, I should have stopped with an earlier manuscript.
If the bulk of the text (after chapter cx) is too much, the reader might elect to print the textual material to provide for a more leisurely approach.
INDEX MAP:
c16t4p1- 4 & c17t4p1- 2: problem melanocytic lesion (Spitz type?);
c18t4P1- 8: thin SSM with regression;
c19t4P1- 6: small congenital nevus with patterns of regression;
c20t4P1- 6 & c21t4P1- 6: spindle cell melanocytic lesion with vertical growth-like component;
c22t4P1- 8 & c23t4P1- 2: sclerosing small epithelioid cell neoplasm with vertical growth-like component;
c23t4P3- 7 & c24t4P1- 3: spindle cell melanocytic lesion with migrant vertical growth-like patterns;
c24t4P4-3 & c25t4P1-3: spindle cell nevus-like lesion with vertical growth-like patterns;
c25t4P4- 8: spindle cell melanocytic lesion with vertical growth-like patterns;
c26t4P1- 5 & c27t4P1-4: ulcerated and infarcted, pleomorphic spindle cell neoplasm with migrant vertical growth-like patterns;
c28t4P1- 7: spindle cell melanocytic lesion with migrant vertical growth-like patterns;
c29t4P1-2: additional lesion relevant to c16t4P1- 4 & c17t4P1-2;
c29t4P3: additional lesion relevant to c26t4P1- 5 & c27t4P1- 4.
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