G. Klöppel – författare

The second edition of this book is devoted entirely to the exocrine pancreatic tumours. It is the result of a collaborative effort of pathologists from 7 countries and is more extensive and detailed than the previous edition, which was published 17 years ago. Several new tumour entities are described. These revisions improve the classification of exocrine tumours of the pancreas, which will continue to facilitate comparison of data by providing a standardised international terminology.

This second edition updates the "WHO Classification of Endocrine Tumours" proposed in 1980 and incorporates many new tumour entities and pertinent concepts that have developed since that time. It is the result of a collaborative effort between 9 pathologists from different countries, in addition to informal contributions and discussions by many other colleagues. In particular, efforts have been made to integrate into the fundamental backbone of the histologic classification a number of prognostic and functional parameters now essential for appropriate diagnosis and clinicopathologic evaluation of endocrine tumours.