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Published in: Head and Neck Pathology 1/2017

01-03-2017 | Preface

Update from the 4th Edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck Tumours: Preface

Author: Raja R. Seethala

Published in: Head and Neck Pathology | Issue 1/2017

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It has been over a decade since the last iteration of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of head and neck tumors (the so called “blue book”). This time interval has brought several key changes to a broad variety of tumor types in the head and neck region to the point that the topic of envisioning future changes in the WHO was a focus of a North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology Companion Meeting, March 2, 2014, in San Diego, California [1‐6]. Thus, the 4th edition of the WHO blue book is a crystallization of many of these predicted changes, and a welcome update. …
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Title
Update from the 4th Edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck Tumours: Preface
Author
Raja R. Seethala
Publication date
01-03-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Head and Neck Pathology / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1936-0568
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-017-0785-2

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