Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Pathologist’s Survival Guide

✍ Scribed by Raul S. Gonzalez, Kay Washington (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a quick, pattern-based reference for interpreting histologic changes in non-neoplastic liver. It is designed to guide the reader based on morphologic pattern and basic clinical information. Each chapter covers a broad but identifiable pat­tern of pathologic liver findings (e.g., “portal inflammation” or “steatosis”) and discusses the major disease entities that manifest as such a pattern. As liver biopsies can be complex and daunting, such an approach should improve the reader’s ability to identi­fy a likely diagnosis or differential and to distinguish among the possible disease enti­ties. Sample reports at the end of each chap­ter offer guidance on how to sign out cases.

Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Patholo­gist’s Survival Guide will be of value to practicing pathologists without specialized training in hepatic pathology, pathology residents and fellows trying to learn the basics of non-neoplastic liver pathology, and hepatologists interested in reviewing liver biopsies with pathologists

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Normal or Nearly Normal Liver....Pages 5-12
Portal Inflammation....Pages 13-25
Lobular Changes....Pages 27-36
Biliary and Vascular Changes....Pages 37-69
Cholestasis....Pages 71-83
Steatosis....Pages 85-114
Fibrosis and Cirrhosis....Pages 115-122
Granulomas....Pages 123-145
Sinusoidal Changes....Pages 147-167
Necrosis....Pages 169-180
Pigments and Inclusions....Pages 181-201
Funny-Looking Cells....Pages 203-210
Liver Transplantation....Pages 211-231
Pediatric Liver Disease....Pages 233-272
Special and Immunohistochemical Stains....Pages 273-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-285

✦ Subjects

Pathology; Hepatology