Main description:

This volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series packs today's most essential pulmonary pathology into a compact, high-yield format! It covers both common and rare neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the lung and pleura and focuses primarily on diagnosis with correlations to clinical and radiographic characteristics. Its pragmatic, well-organized approach, abundant full-color illustrations, and at-a-glance boxes and tables make the information you need easy to access. Practical and affordable, this resource is ideal for study and review as well as everyday clinical practice!

Contents:

Chapter 1 Normal Anatomy, Tissue Artifacts, and Incidental Structures, Douglas B. Flieder

Chapter 2 The Uses and Abuses of the Lung Biopsy, Anthony A. Gal

Chapter 3 A Pattern-Based Approach to Diagnosis, Diana N. Ionescu and Kevin O. Leslie

Chapter 4 Congenital, Developmental, and Inherited Disorders, Megan K. Dishop and Claire Langston

Chapter 5 Acquired Non-neoplastic Neonatal and Pediatric Disorders, Gail H. Deutsch

Chapter 6 Lung Neoplasms in Infants and Children, Michael H. Covinsky

Chapter 7 Vascular Diseases, Carlyne D. Cool

Chapter 8 Vasculitides and Other Causes of Pulmonary Hemorrhage, Andre L. Moreira and William D. Travis

Chapter 9 Acute Lung Injury, Mary Beth Beasley

Chapter 10 Bacterial Diseases, Carol F. Farver

Chapter 11 Mycobacterial Diseases, Jaishree Jagirdar

Chapter 12 Fungal Diseases, Abida K. Haque

Chapter 13 Viral Diseases, Sherif R. Zaki and Christopher D. Paddock

Chapter 14 Human Parasitic Pulmonary Infections, Gary W. Procop and Ronald C. Neafie

Chapter 15 Chlamydial, Mycoplasmal, Rickettsial, and Ehrlichial Diseases, David H. Walker

Chapter 16 Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias, Andras Khoor

Chapter 17 Other Interstitial Lung Diseases, Roberto Barrios

Chapter 18 Environmental and Toxin Induced Lung Diseases, Allen R. Gibbs and R.L Attanoos

Chapter 19 Drug Reactions and Other Iatrogenic Pulmonary Diseases, Ashley Allison and Dani S. Zander

Chapter 20 Emphysema and Diseases of Large Airways, Linda K. Green

Chapter 21 Diseases of Small Airways, Armando E. Fraire and Roberto J. Barrios

Chapter 22 Lymphoid Lesions of the Lung, Donald G. Guinee, Jr.

Chapter 23 Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Lesions of the Lung

Chapter 24 Transplantation Related Lung Pathology, Aliya N. Husain

Chapter 25 Other Non-Neoplastic Focal Lesions, Pseudotumors, Inclusions and Depositions, Carol F. Farver

Chapter 26 Usual Lung Cancers, Dongfeng Tan and Sadir J. Alrawi

Chapter 27 Neuroendocrine Neoplasms, Elisabeth Brambilla and Sylvie Lantuejoul

Chapter 28 Unusual Primary Malignant Lung Neoplasms, Bruno Murer, Ulrike Gruber-Mösenbacher, and Helmut H. Popper

Chapter 29 Pulmonary Involvement by Extrapulmonary Neoplasms, Marie Christine Aubry

Chapter 30 Pulmonary Processes of Indeterminate Malignant Potential, Anna Sienko

Chapter 31 Precursors of Malignancy, Keith M Kerr

Chapter 32 Benign Neoplasms of the Lungs, Douglas B. Flieder

Chapter 33 Primary Pleural Neoplasms, Thomas Sporn

Chapter 34 Pleural Involvement by Extrapleural Neoplasms, Kelly J. Butnor

Chapter 35 Inflammatory and Fibrosing Pleural Processes, Joanne L. Wright

Chapter 36 Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Diseases, Omar R. Chughtai and Dani S. Zander

Chapter 37 Respiratory Cytology, Jennifer Brainard

Chapter 38 Techniques and Applications to the Diagnosis of Lung Diseases: Immunohistochemistry, Dongfeng Tan and Dani S. Zander

Chapter 39 Techniques and Applications to the Diagnosis of Lung Diseases: Immunofluorescence, Cynthia M. Magro

Chapter 40 Laboratory Diagnosis of Lung Diseases: Immunologic Tests, Semyon A. Risin