Manual of Surgical Pathology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443079188 ISBN 13: 9780443079184

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2000

(Churchill Livingstone) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Practical guide to the complete evaluation of the surgical pathology specimen. Provides instructions on dissecting, staining, and processing and includes a concise listing of common histochemical stains, their staining patterns, and their common uses. Softcover. DNLM: Pathology, Surgical.

About the Author:

Susan C. Lester, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Director, Breast Pathology Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Review:

"Lester (pathology, Harvard Medical School) provides a manual of surgical pathology procedures organized by body region, along with information on processing, the lab, reports, safety, errors, and special studies. This edition has new and updated tables for immunochemistry, histologic appearance of viruses and fungi, and the optical properties of commonly seen noncellular material; the recommendations for American Joint Commission on Cancer classification and guidelines for the assessment of critical pathologic features; new tables for central nervous system tumors, lung carcinomas, fibroblastic/myofibroblastic lesions of the breast, signet ring cell carcinomas, metastatic carcinomas to the abdomen, and others; and evaluation of microsatellite instability in colon carcinomas. Online access to the full text and abstracts is included."

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