Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach: A Volume in the Pattern Recognition Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print

Practical Hepatic Pathology―a new volume in the new Pattern Recognition series―offers you a practical guide to diagnosing every challenging liver biopsy that you encounter in your daily practice. Dr. Romil Saxena presents diagnoses according to a pattern-based organization that guides you from a histological pattern of injury, through the appropriate work-up, around the pitfalls, and to the best diagnosis. Lavish, full-color images capture key hepatic pathology patterns of injury, pathognomonic features and common variations of all major liver diseases and hepatic neoplasms, while a "visual index" at the beginning of the book directs you to the exact location of in-depth diagnostic guidance. No other single source delivers the practical, hands-on information you need to solve even the toughest diagnostic challenges in liver biopsies.

• Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com, along with a downloadable image bank.
• Recognize the basic patterns of liver injury through an algorithmic approach and establish diagnosis by a pattern-based visual index present at the beginning of the book.
• Evaluate and interpret biopsy samples using superb, high-quality, full-color images that illustrate pathognomonic features and common variations.
• Get comprehensive information on major adult and childhood liver diseases, hepatic neoplasms and pre-neoplastic nodules including clinical features, laboratory tests, imaging findings and differential diagnosis.
• Understand the pathology and practice of liver transplantation with coverage of the clinical aspects of this procedure.

Dr. Romil Saxena is Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director of the Liver Pathology Service, and Director of the Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. Dr. Saxena completed fellowships in Liver Pathology at King’s College Hospital, London, Liver Pathology and Gene Therapy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC and in Gastrointestinal Pathology at Yale University Medical Center. She has previously served on the faculty of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. Dr. Saxena has taught numerous courses, and given invited talks and lectures globally on liver pathology and liver diseases. She is the author of 150 articles and numerous textbook chapters on liver diseases, including in the 4th and 5th editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Digestive System, and the debut volume on WHO Classification of Pediatric Tumors. She is the editor of Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach, a popular textbook on liver pathology published by Elsevier, currently in its second edition. She has served, by invitation, on the WHO working group for classification of liver tumors, and as guest editor for an issue of Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology on Liver tumors.