MacSween's Pathology of the Liver, 8th Edition
Hardcover
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Shares the knowledge and experience of a “who’s who” list of experts in the field of hepatobiliary pathology, led by editors Alastair D. Burt, Linda D. Ferrell, and Stefan G. Hübscher.
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Features more than 1,000 high-quality, full color illustrations, providing a complete visual guide to each tumor or tumor-like lesion.
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Discusses advances in molecular diagnostic testing, its capabilities, and its limitations, including targeted/personalized medicine.
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Incorporates 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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Includes relevant data from ancillary techniques (immunohistochemistry, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics), giving you the necessary tools required to master the latest breakthroughs in diagnostic technology.
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Provides you with all of the necessary diagnostic tools to make a complete and accurate pathologic report, including clinicopathologic background throughout.
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Directs you to the most recent and authoritative sources for further reading with a comprehensive reference list that highlights key articles and up-to-date citations.
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An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
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1 Structure, function, and responses to injury
2 Cellular and molecular techniques
3 Developmental and inherited liver disease
4 Disorders of iron overload
5 Fatty liver disease
6 Hepatitis due to hepatotropic viruses
7 Non-hepatotropic viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections of the liver
8 Autoimmune hepatitis
9 Bile duct diseases
10 Diseases of the gallbladder
11 Vascular disorders
12 Hepatic injury due to drugs, dietary and herbal supplements, chemicals and toxins
13 Tumours and tumour-like lesions
14 Transplantation pathology
15 Liver in systemic disease
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Alastair D. Burt, BSc, MBChB, MD, FRCPath, FRCPA, FRCP, FRSB, FAHMS, Professor of Precision and Molecular Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Emeritus Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia, Linda D. Ferrell, MD, Emerita Professor, Anatomic Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA and Stefan G. Hübscher, MBChB, FRCPath, Emeritus Professor of Hepatic Pathology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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