Oral Pathology: A Comprehensive Atlas and Text

Book info: Oral Pathology: A Comprehensive Atlas and Text (Hardcover, 536 pages) – Elsevier, 2016. Language: English.

Woo’s Oral Pathology the first comprehensive, richly illustrated atlas of oral pathology that provides the full histologic range of presentation of mucosal disease. Board certified in both oral pathology and oral medicine, Dr. Sook-Bin Woo draws on her extensive clinical experience to help you achieve diagnostic certainty. Each condition is illustrated with clinical photographs and high-quality photomicrographs, while a management section for all entities provides further guidance. Oral Pathologyprovides all the knowledge you need to accurately identify even the most challenging lesions.

• • • • High-quality clinical photographs and photomicrographs capture the characteristic presentation of all types of neoplastic, dysplastic, and benign mucosal disease.
      • Brief descriptions of clinical management for each disease entity help you understand the implications of your diagnoses.
      • Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, virtual microscope slides, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
      • Approximately 50 virtual microscope slides allow users to see slides of entire cases presented in the book.
      • Includes a new chapter on lymphoid malignancies.
      • Features new coverage of paracoccidioidomycosis and blastomycosis.
      • Includes pathology of lesions, clinical photographs, high-quality photomicrographs, and brief discussions of clinical management.

Accurately identify even the most challenging lesions.

Dr. Sook-Bin Woo is a professor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity (OMII). She has been a professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2008.

Woo graduated with a BDS from Singapore University in 1980 and worked as a general dentist and oral and maxillofacial surgery resident before moving to the United States. She received her MS in oral pathology from Indiana University in 1984 and completed a fellowship in head and neck pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 1986. She then obtained her DMD from HSDM and further training in oral and maxillofacial pathology, earning her MMSc degree in 1991. She became board-certified in oral and maxillofacial pathology in 1991.

Woo became board-certified in oral medicine in 2003 and sees patients in consultation at the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Woo has served on the Fellowship Committee and Executive Council of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and on the board of the American Academy of Oral Medicine, where she was president from 2014 to 2015. She has published numerous scholarly papers and book chapters, and authored an atlas of oral pathology (now in its second edition). She is a reviewer for many journals and a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. Woo has received the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health from 1988 to 1991, and the American Cancer Society Career Development Award from 1994 to 1997, among other honors. In 2012, she received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award from HSDM.