Bibliographic record
Abstract
RJ KURMAN, editor. Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract. 5th edn. With 1410 Illustrations, 1391 pages. 4060 g. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2002. Hardcover price: EUR 199.00, SFR 322.00, GBP 139.50, USD 189.00 (the Euro price is a net price being subject to local VAT). ISBN 0-387-95203-9. Despite recent strides in ultrasonography and genetics, pathology remains the basic guiding tool in gynecology. Most of our diagnoses are based upon the pathologist's reports, which in turn determine treatment and give the prognostic clues. The clinician who is familiar with the microscopic as well as the macroscopic morphology, will do a better job and be better able to convey the appropriate information to patients. Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract is the perfect guide to pathologists and clinicians alike. I reviewed the first edition, which appeared in 1977, for Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening (Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association), and was thoroughly impressed. The fifth edition lives up to expectations. The editor, Robert J. Kurman, states that approximately one- third of the book has undergone major revisions, not least because of extensive revisions of the classification systems on tumors and tumor precursors since the fourth edition in 1994. Most of the illustrations are photomicrographs, including 375 new ones. None of them is in color, because Dr Kurman feels that color reproductions generally lack the clarity and crispness of good black-and-white pictures. I agree, and feel confident that all who study this excellent book will too. With one exception (Canada) the 29 authors are from the USA. In lucid chapters, they cover every conceivable aspect of gynecologic pathology, including embryology and disorders of abnormal sexual behavior, diseases of the peritoneum, diseases of the placenta, molecular biology and epidemiology. Endometriosis is extensively covered in the chapter on diseases of the peritoneum. Clinical features and treatment follow the description of almost every pathological entity. Even case reports are included, to illustrate the chronologic sequence of progression of simple endometrial hyperplasia to carcinoma during the course of several years. With new capital letter abbreviations appearing at an 2 amazing rate (AIS, AJCC, APUD, APCCT, ABC, to quote a few from the beginning of the alphabet), a separate list would have been welcome, in addition to appearances in parentheses in the general index. Because of easy access to computerized searches, the lists of references have been limited to articles published in the last decade as well as some large older series that are still clinically relevant. Nevertheless, most of the chapters number upward of 300 references. I note with satisfaction that Scandinavian contributions are included, among them several originating from the Norwegian Radium Hospital. Another reference pleasing to this reviewer is that from the preface: a quotation from Henrik Ibsen in a letter to his publisher, expressing his curious feeling of emptiness upon having finished a play, although it felt good to be done with it. Professor Kurman has every reason to feel good. Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract will remain the yardstick for years to come. It belongs in every hospital or departmental library. Individual gynecologists and pathologists will not regret buying it for private perusal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.225 | 0.210 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".