TY - JOUR
T1 - Don't stop the champions of research now
T2 - a brief history of head and neck pathology developments
AU - Thompson, Lester D.R.
AU - Lewis, James S.
AU - Skálová, Alena
AU - Bishop, Justin A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - The field of head and neck pathology was just developing 50 years ago but has certainly come a long way in a relatively short time. Thousands of developments in diagnostic criteria, tumor classification, malignancy staging, immunohistochemistry application, and molecular testing have been made during this time, with an exponential increase in literature on the topics over the past few decades: There were 3506 articles published on head and neck topics in the decade between 1969 and 1978 (PubMed source), with a staggering 89 266 manuscripts published in the most recent decade. It is daunting and impossible to narrow the more than 162 000 publications in this field and suggest only a few topics of significance. However, the breakthrough in this anatomic discipline has been achieved in 3 major sites: oropharyngeal carcinoma, salivary gland neoplasms, and sinonasal tract tumors. This review will highlight selected topics in these anatomic sites in which the most profound changes in diagnosis have occurred, focusing on the information that helps to guide daily routine practice of surgical pathology.
AB - The field of head and neck pathology was just developing 50 years ago but has certainly come a long way in a relatively short time. Thousands of developments in diagnostic criteria, tumor classification, malignancy staging, immunohistochemistry application, and molecular testing have been made during this time, with an exponential increase in literature on the topics over the past few decades: There were 3506 articles published on head and neck topics in the decade between 1969 and 1978 (PubMed source), with a staggering 89 266 manuscripts published in the most recent decade. It is daunting and impossible to narrow the more than 162 000 publications in this field and suggest only a few topics of significance. However, the breakthrough in this anatomic discipline has been achieved in 3 major sites: oropharyngeal carcinoma, salivary gland neoplasms, and sinonasal tract tumors. This review will highlight selected topics in these anatomic sites in which the most profound changes in diagnosis have occurred, focusing on the information that helps to guide daily routine practice of surgical pathology.
KW - Head and neck
KW - Immunohistochemistry
KW - Molecular
KW - Oropharyngeal
KW - Paranasal sinus neoplasms
KW - Pathology
KW - Salivary gland neoplasms
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U2 - 10.1016/j.humpath.2019.08.017
DO - 10.1016/j.humpath.2019.08.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 31449826
AN - SCOPUS:85075293490
SN - 0046-8177
VL - 95
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - Human Pathology
JF - Human Pathology
ER -