Diagnostic Pathology: Vascular E-Book

Diagnostic Pathology: Vascular E-Book

David L. Stockman, David Stockman

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323431460
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Pathology

Diagnostic Pathology: Vascular offers a specific focus on vascular pathology, making it ideal for the practicing pathologist, dermatologist, pediatrician, or trainee. This easy-to-use, comprehensive reference book takes a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and boasts superior medical images — including radiology, gross pathology, and clinical photographs — on a wide variety of rare entities. This is your essential guide to understanding vascular pathology and diagnosis!- Organ system-based approach to the diagnosis of vascular tumors includes diagnostic criteria and decision-making paradigms to rule out mimics in specific anatomic locations.- Essential information is distilled into a bulleted format with numerous high-quality images to facilitate learning.- "Key Facts" highlight the quick criteria needed for diagnosis or adequacy evaluation at the time of a procedure.- Extensive clinical, radiographic, and histologic library of images of vascular lesions set in specific anatomic locations.- Updated classification schema for vascular tumors, proliferations, and malformations modified from the current International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies and the 2013 WHO Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor book.- Molecular genetic characteristics section for each tumor highlights additional possible ancillary techniques that can be employed for diagnostic purposes.- Includes the most current immunohistochemical techniques useful for characterizing specific vascular tumors and utilizing in malignancy.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedications
• Contributing Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Sections
• SECTION 1: Overview
• SECTION 2: Tumor-Like Lesions of Blood Vessels
• SECTION 3: Benign Vascular Tumors
• SECTION 4: Vascular Tumors of Intermediate Malignancy
• SECTION 5: Malignant Vascular Tumors
• SECTION 6: Vascular Tumors of the Skin
• SECTION 7: Vascular Tumors of the Head and Neck
• SECTION 8: Vascular Tumors of the Bone
• SECTION 9: Vascular Tumors of the Liver
• SECTION 10: Vascular Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Viscera
• SECTION 11: Vascular Tumors of the Spleen
• SECTION 12: Vascular Tumors of the Thoracic Cavity
• SECTION 13: Vascular Tumors of the Kidney
• SECTION 14: Vascular Proliferations and Tumors of the Genitourinary Tract
• SECTION 15: Vascular Proliferations and Tumors Occurring With Post-Radiation Treatment
• SECTION 16: Vascular Proliferations and Tumors of the Breast
• SECTION 17: Tumors of the Lymphatics
• SECTION 18: Perivascular Tumors and Tumors With Prominent Vascularity
• SECTION 19: Vascular Malformations
• INDEX