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Eintragungsorte u.a.: Altdorf, Amberg, Nürnberg, Wittenberg.
This volume represents the Proceedings of the VI. International Conference on Lymphatic Tissues and Germinal Centers in Immune Reactions. The Meeting took place in Damp, a small resort with great facilities on the shores of the Baltic Sea near Kiel on June 11 - 16, 1978. Both, the Genius loci and the God of Weathers were charming enough to stimulate the many participants from all continents and also to facilitate the establishment and/or maintenance of close contacts outside the sessions. The organizers of this Conference have tried to remind the scientific community of the necessity to (re-) consider sufficiently the role of morphological studies for a thorough understanding of immune react...
Summarizes the protocols developed by the very few specialists on the rare and mostly malignant human neoplasms that display a variety of morphological features and an unrivaled frequency of associated autoimmune diseases. The 50 papers cover histological and immunological characteristics, differential diagnosis, altered T cell functions, para-neoplastic autoimmunity, diagnosis and therapy, and managing thymectomized patients. The individual papers focus on such topics as a clinical pathological study in Singapore, the development of T cells in the human thymus, titin epitope, the core needle biopsy of anterior mediastinum masses, therapeutic options in locally advanced thymoma, and the role of radiotherapy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Twenty-five years have passed since J. MILLER'S basic work on the central role of the thymus for the generation of immunological reactivi ty. During this time, the abundance of fascinating literature on the immunological and functional aspects of this organ has been in contrast to the paucity of reports on its role in pathology. The causal or formal pathogenesis even of many of the well-documented pathological fea tures is so far unexplained or at least uncertain. In spite of some concep tual progress related to the work of CASTLEMAN, LEVINE, and ROSAI, we regrettably have to say that in pathology the thymus remains almost as inconspicuous as 25 years ago. Only the new techniques developed i...