Practical Pulmonary Pathology, 4th Edition
Hardcover
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Helps you quickly recognize the vast variety of appearances of the lung that result from infections, tumors, and tumor-like lesions, both malignant and benign.
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Discusses advances in molecular diagnostic testing, its capabilities and its limitations, including targeted/personalized medicine.
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Incorporates clinicopathologic background and relevant data from ancillary techniques (immunohistochemistry, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics), giving you the tools you need to master the latest breakthroughs in diagnostic technology.
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Covers the latest TNM staging and WHO classification systems, as well as new diagnostic biomarkers and their utility in differential diagnosis, newly described variants, and new histologic entities.
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Color-codes patterns to specific entities, and summarizes key points in tables, charts, and graphs so you can quickly and easily find what you are looking for.
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Shares the knowledge and expertise of new co-editor, Dr. Maxwell L. Smith.
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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.
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Pattern-Based Approach to Diagnosis
1 Lung Anatomy
2 Pulmonary Function Testing for Pathologists
3 Optimal Processing of Diagnostic Lung Specimens
4 Computed Tomography of Diffuse Lung Diseases and Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
5 Developmental and Pediatric Lung Disease
6 Acute Lung Injury
7 Lung Infections
8 Chronic Diffuse Lung Diseases
9 Nonneoplastic Pathology of the Large and Small Airways
10 Pneumoconioses
11 Pulmonary Vasculitis and Pulmonary Hemorrhage
12 Pulmonary Hypertension
13 Pathology of Lung Transplantation
14 Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Lung
15 Sarcomas and Sarcomatoid Neoplasms of the Lungs and Pleural Surfaces
16 Hematolymphoid Disorders
17 Non-Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (Excluding Sarcomatoid Carcinoma) and Salivary Gland-Type Tumors of the Lung
18 Metastatic Tumors in the Lung:
A Practical Approach to Diagnosis
19 Pseudoneoplastic Lesions of the Lungs and Pleural Surfaces
20 Benign and Borderline Tumors
of the Lungs and Pleura
21 Malignant and Borderline Mesothelial Tumors of the Pleura
Appendix
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Maxwell L. Smith, MD, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, Kevin O. Leslie, MD, Professor of Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA and Mark R. Wick, MD, Professor of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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