Surgical Pathology of the Liver

Description:

Written by surgical pathologists for surgical pathologists, Surgical Pathology of the Liver focuses on sharpening your skills and knowledge in diagnostic histopathology, including laboratory and clinical findings that are directly useful when evaluating liver histology for clinical care. It offers comprehensive, superbly illustrated coverage of general liver pathology, as well as several chapters on topics that are not often included in liver pathology textbooks.  Abundant high-quality illustrations have been carefully chosen to support and extend the information given in the text.

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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The normal liver

Chapter 2: Gross processing of liver specimens

Chapter 3: The language of liver pathology: definitions of key terms

Chapter 4: Immunohistochemistry and special stains in liver pathology

Chapter 5: Electron microscopy

Chapter 6: Basic patterns of injury in medical liver pathology

Chapter 7: The almost normal liver biopsy

Chapter 8: Viral hepatitis

Chapter 9: Parasites in the liver

Chapter 10: Other infections of the liver

Chapter 11: Granulomatous liver disease

Chapter 12: Autoimmune hepatitis

Chapter 13: Cholestatic liver disease and biliary tract disease

Chapter 14: Pediatric cholestatic liver disease

Chapter 15: Drug effects

Chapter 16: Fatty liver disease: alcoholic and nonalcoholic

Chapter 17: Iron overload and liver pathology

Chapter 18: Wilson disease and other inherited metabolic diseases of liver

Chapter 19: Liver involvement in systemic diseases

Chapter 20: Transplantation pathology

Chapter 21: Vascular disorders

Chapter 22: Cytopathology of the liver

Chapter 23: Molecular genetics of liver diseases

Chapter 24: Imaging of liver tumors

Chapter 25: Pediatric liver tumors

Chapter 26: Benign and malignant mesenchymal tumors of the liver

Chapter 27: Benign hepatocellular tumors

Chapter 28: Hepatocellular carcinoma

Chapter 29: Benign and malignant biliary tumors

Chapter 30: Hematopathology and the liver

Chapter 31: Metastatic tumors in the liver

Index