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This encyclopedia volume covers the complete field of pathology of the pancreas – from Acinar cell neoplasms to Vascular resections. The alphabetically arranged entries, each of which provides a detailed description of a specific pathological disease pattern, allow readers to quickly and easily find the information they need.

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Irene Esposito is Full Professor of Pathology and since 2015 Head of the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Duesseldorf, Germany. She obtained her MD in 1997 at the University of Pisa, Italy, where she also completed her training in Pathology. After moving to Germany in 2003, she worked as consultant at the Institute of Pathology of the University of Heidelberg (2003-2007). After that, she moved to Munich, where she became Head of the Mouse Pathology Unit at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Neuherberg (2008-2010) performing mouse phenotyping at the German Mouse Clinic. In 2010 she was appointed as Associate Professor of Tumor Pathology at the Institute of Pathology of the Technische Universitaet of Munich and in 2011 she became Vice-Director of the Institute. After a short period as Director of the Institute of Pathology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, she was appointed at the Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf and moved back to Germany, where she now lives with her family and her two daughters. Prof. Esposito is an expert in hepato-pancreatico-biliary, gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine pathology. Her scientific interests focus on pancreatico-biliary carcinogenesis and on experimental, comparative and surgical pathology of pancreatico-biliary neoplasms. Eva Karamitopoulou-Diamantis is a Professor of Pathology, with specilaty on Pancreatic Pathology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. After obtaining her MD degree from the University of Patras, Greece in 1989 she moved to Switzerland where she completed her training in Pathology at the Institute of Pathology, University of Basel. She worked as a consultant at the Universities of Basel and Bern and after a short period as assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Athens, she joined the Institute of Pathology, University of Bern in 2011 where she obtained her habilitation (PD) in 2013 and became Professor of Pathology in 2016. Since 2019 is a senior consultant at the Institute of Pathology Enge, Zurich, while keeping her teaching and research appointment at the Uiversity of Bern, Switzerland. She is an expert in pancreatobiliary, liver and gastrointestinal pathology and her scientific interest focuses on pancreatic cancer, especially on the deeper understanding of the immune contexture in the tumor microenvironment and its role on tumor progression. She lives with her family in Bern.

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