Practical Pulmonary Pathology, 4th Edition

by Maxwell L. Smith, MD, Kevin O. Leslie, MD and Mark R. Wick, MD

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ISBN: 9780323795470

Publication Date: 12-21-2022

Page Count: 880

Imprint: Elsevier

List Price: $314.99

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Key Features
- 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.
- Discusses advances in molecular diagnostic testing, its capabilities and its limitations, including targeted/personalized medicine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shares the knowledge and expertise of new co-editor, Dr. Maxwell L. Smith.
- 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.
Contents

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 Nodule

5. Developmental and Pediatric Lung Disease

6. Acute Lung Injury

7. Lung Infections

8. Chronic Diffuse Lung Diseases

9. Non-neoplastic 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 Lung and Pleura

16. Pulmonary Pathology: Hematolymphoid Disorders

17. Non-neuroendocrine Carcinomas (Excluding "Sarcomatoid" Carcinoma) and Salivary Gland Analogue Tumors of the Lung

18. Metastatic Tumors in the Lung: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis

19. Pseudoneoplastic Lesions of the Lungs and Pleura

20. Benign and Borderline Tumors of the Lungs and Pleura

21. Malignant and Borderline Mesothelial Tumors of the Pleura

Appendix
Authors

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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