is Professor of Pathology at the University of Porto, Portugal, and serves as Medical Director of the IPATIMUP Diagnostic Unit. Her doctoral thesis was on papillay thyroid carcinoma and she is a co-author of the next WHO book on endocrine tumors (in preparation). Her research interests are focused on thyroid cancer pathology: etiopathogenesis, cytopathology and molecular pathology
Provides detailed descriptions and documentation of almost all the rare tumours and tumor-like lesions of the thyroid
Broadens our current understanding of thyroid oncology through the study of rare lesions in the context of common thyroid tumours
Offers an in-depth review of the histogenesis of most of the rare lesions of the thyroid, which is needed for diagnosis and therapy