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Preface Second Edition

In 2008, we published our first work entitled Textbook and Color Atlas of Salivary Gland Pathology – Diagnosis and Management. In preparation for the development and publication of the second edition of this book, several issues became apparent that resulted in changes and additions to our first edition. The first change is the title. We selected Salivary Gland Pathology – Diagnosis and Management due to the inherent and obvious textbook nature of this work. In addition, our readership is aware that our teaching mission involves the use of high quality color images to illustrate the cases included in each chapter and to guide the reader through the workup and execution of the medical and surgical management of salivary gland pathology. The title was shortened accordingly. All chapters have been updated in terms of references and the addition of new cases to illustrate important points within each chapter. This includes Chapter 7, Classification, Grading, and Staging of Salivary Gland Tumors, where histomicrographs of most of the benign and malignant salivary gland neoplasms are now illustrated in the chapter. In keeping with our expanding knowledge base of the diagnosis and management of salivary gland pathology, we have included four new chapters in this second edition, including those devoted to the molecular biology of benign and malignant salivary gland tumors, radiation therapy for salivary gland tumors, systemic therapy for salivary gland cancer, and pediatric salivary gland pathology. Four new authors have been added including Drs. Joseph Kelley, J. Michael McCoy, Janakiraman Subramanian, and Randy Todd. Where appropriate, algorithms have been included in the chapters to assist in decision making processes associated with the management of salivary gland pathology.

As with the first edition of this textbook, it is our expressed purpose to make this second edition a singular work with extensive text and clinical images. It is our hope that this textbook will provide a useful update to our international colleagues who benefited from the first edition.

Eric R. Carlson, DMD, MD, FACS

Robert A. Ord, DDS, MD, FRCS, FACS, MS, MBA