Helps you find information quickly with a user-friendly design, concise paragraphs, numbered lists, and bulleted material throughout the text.
Reflects the latest AJCC staging information, as well as updates throughout on reporting procedures, protocols, and safety.
Offers detailed instructions on the dissection, description, and sampling of specimens, and explains the application of pathology reports to patient management.
Provides procedures for new types of specimens including pulmonary image guided resections, endoscopic mucosal resection, endoscopic submucosal dissection, laparoscopic hysterectomy, or nephrectomy morcellation, vertical sleeve gastrectomy, and evaluation of breast implant capsules with a clinical suspicion of lymphoma
Features dozens of illustrations that demonstrate the gross appearance of common pathologic lesions, and more than 150 tables that examine the interpretation of histochemical stains, immunohistochemical studies, electron microscopy findings, cytogenetic changes, and much more.
Examines the specimens from every organ and system as well as bullets, medical devices, and foreign materials.
Includes a new chapter on occupational hazards for pathologists ranging from visual and musculoskeletal problems to exposure and prevention of workplace acquired infection and cancer.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Part One 1. Requests for Pathologic Evaluation 2. Specimen Processing: From Gross Specimens to Tissue Cassettes 3. The Histology Laboratory—What the Pathologist Needs to Know—From Tissue Cassettes to Glass Slides 4. The Surgical Pathology Report: From the Glass Slide to the Final Diagnosis 5. Special Studies 6. Occupational Hazards 7. Microscopy and Photography Part Two 8. Adrenal Gland 9. Amputations and Large Resections 10. Small Biopsies 11. Bone and Joints 12. Breast 13. Cardiovascular Specimens 14. Cytology Specimens 15. Dermatopathology 16. Gastrointestinal Specimens 17. Genitourinary Specimens 18. Gross Examination 19. Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology 20. Head and Neck and Laryngeal Specimens 21. Hernia Sac 22. Lung and Pleura 23. Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Bone Marrow 24. Medical Devices and Foreign Material 25. Neuropathology 26. Paraganglioma 27. Penis 28. Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas) 29. Thymus 30. Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands Index
Susan C. Lester, MD, PhD, Former Chief of Breast Pathology Services, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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