This handbook is designed to help jobbing histopathologists jog their memory and get through more workload in any working day. Rapid access is facilitated by a bullet-point, tabular and diagrammatic style, as well as by handy anatomical diagrams, guidance on the ‘Cut-Up’ with emphasis on core ‘datasets’ and by a special index for frozen section advice, grading systems and scoring systems. The book provides, where useful, differential diagnosis lists and presents diagnostically helpful molecular and immunohistochemical findings. Information is kept up-to-date on a dedicated website
www.pathbook.com.
The Diagnostic Criteria Handbook in Histopathology is not designed to be an “exam cram” and neither will it serve as a basic text for beginners. Trainees, however, will still benefit from the sheer breadth of topics covered in this one small volume: from lab management and lab methods, to autopsy practice, cytology and all sub-specialties in surgical pathology. A chapter on exam technique and mnemonics makes the book also an essential companion for those revising for professional exams.
So why clutter your precious desk space with multiple sets of heavy two-volume reference works?
Give this handy Vade Mecum a place next to your microscope and see how much time you could save!
Innehållsförteckning
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations and Symbols xiii
General Bibliography and Suggested Reading xxiv
Index to Grading and Classification Systems xxv
Frozen Section Index xxvi
Reader’s Index xxvi
1. Advice for Exam Candidates 1
2. Histological Techniques 6
3. Laboratory Management 22
4. Cut-up and Reporting Guidelines 36
5. Paediatric and Placental 56
6. Vascular 68
7. Heart 75
8. Respiratory and Mediastinum 81
9. Bone Marrow 99
10. Lymphoreticular 107
11. Alimentary Tract 126
12. Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas 156
13. Central Nervous System and Skeletal Muscle 181
14. Eye and Ear 193
15. Renal Medicine 201
16. Urological 211
17. Gynaecological 232
18. Breast 258
19. Endocrine 267
20. Skin 281
21. Soft Tissues 309
22. Osteoarticular 329
23. Infection and Immunity 343
24. Cytopathology 353
25. Autopsy 377
Index of General Terms 395
Index of Molecules 416
Index of Eponyms 420
Om författaren
Dr. Paul J. Tadrous, Histopathology Unit, CRUK, London, UK