Scheuers Liver Biopsy Interpretation

Scheuer's Liver Biopsy Interpretation E-Book

For more than 40 years, Scheuer’s Liver Biopsy Interpretation has been the pathologist’s go-to resource for help in solving diagnostic problems at the microscope. The 9th Edition brings you fully up to date in the field, with coverage of new diagnostic tools, new information on drug-induced liver injury and cytopathology, and many new high-quality illustrations. Throughout the text, you’ll find technical tips, diagnostic clues, and pearls that reflect the extensive experience and insight of the late Dr. Peter Scheuer and internationally renowned author Dr. Jay Lefkowitch, making this new edition your standard bench-side guide to today’s liver biopsy diagnosis. Avoid diagnostic errors with the extensive coverage of histological differential diagnoses in each chapter. Minimize reporting errors with practical advice on diagnostic pitfalls and how to avoid them. Clearly see how pathology impacts the diagnosis and management of liver disease thanks to histopathologic and clinical correlations throughout. Find terms and descriptions used frequently in pathology reports in the handy glossary – a useful quick reference for trainee pathologists and clinical hepatologists. Use the extensive online image bank to enhance your presentations and reports. Get up-to-date information on all aspects of liver pathology, including acute and chronic hepatitis, biliary tract diseases, childhood disorders and hepatic neoplasms. Stay current with the latest diagnostic tools: histopathology is correlated with clinically relevant molecular genetics and immunohistochemistry to keep you up to date.

Examines the pathologic changes in primary liver disease as well as systemic diseases affecting the liver. More than 400 illustrations (now in full color) depict the appearance of every condition. Correlates histopathologic features with clinical features to describe how pathology affects the diagnosis and management of liver disease and helps readers resolve their most difficult diagnostic questions more quickly with copious technical tips and diagnostic "pearls" based on Drs. Scheuer and Lefkowitch's extensive experience. Examines all aspects of liver pathology: normal, hepatidities, childhood diseases, and neoplasms.

For more than 40 years, Scheuer's Liver Biopsy Interpretation has been the pathologist's go-to resource for help in solving diagnostic problems at the microscope. The 9th Edition brings you fully up to date in the field, with coverage of new diagnostic tools, new information on drug-induced liver injury and cytopathology, and many new high-quality illustrations. Throughout the text, you'll find technical tips, diagnostic clues, and pearls that reflect the extensive experience and insight of the late Dr. Peter Scheuer and internationally renowned author Dr. Jay Lefkowitch, making this new edition your standard bench-side guide to today's liver biopsy diagnosis. Avoid diagnostic errors with the extensive coverage of histological differential diagnoses in each chapter. Minimize reporting errors with practical advice on diagnostic pitfalls and how to avoid them. Clearly see how pathology impacts the diagnosis and management of liver disease thanks to histopathologic and clinical correlations throughout. Find terms and descriptions used frequently in pathology reports in the handy glossary - a useful quick reference for trainee pathologists and clinical hepatologists. Use the extensive online image bank to enhance your presentations and reports. Get up-to-date information on all aspects of liver pathology, including acute and chronic hepatitis, biliary tract diseases, childhood disorders and hepatic neoplasms. Stay current with the latest diagnostic tools: histopathology is correlated with clinically relevant molecular genetics and immunohistochemistry to keep you up to date.

Trusted for more than 50 years by pathologists in practice and in training, Scheuer’s Liver Biopsy Interpretation is a well-organized, superbly illustrated guide designed to help solve diagnostic problems at the microscope. Authored by renowned expert Dr. Jay Lefkowitch and reflecting the extensive experience of the late Dr. Peter Scheuer, this practical text contains technical tips, diagnostic clues, and pearls on all aspects of liver pathology diagnosis, including acute and chronic hepatitis, biliary tract diseases, childhood disorders, and hepatic neoplasms – as well as ancillary topics such as biopsy assessment, laboratory techniques, normal liver histology, and transplantation. Throughout the text, histopathologic features are correlated with clinical features, molecular genetics, and immunohistochemistry to provide a practical account of how pathology impacts the diagnosis and management of liver disease. Covers key topics such as genomic alterations in liver tumours, diagnosis of acute liver allograft rejection, scoring systems for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and discussions of immunohistochemical features wherever relevant. Presents the latest information on next generation sequencing and drug-induced liver injury, including adverse reactions to new biologics and alternative medicines to help both the clinician and pathologist avoid diagnostic errors. Features many new illustrations, including over 300 large, full-color and fully annotated photomicrographs that illustrate a wide range of pathologic appearances and help identify each diagnostic entity under discussion. Offers coverage of cytopathology in the assessment of liver tumors to provide further clinical clues to diagnosis. Provides basic overview of major histopathologic diagnostic problems in paediatric liver biopsy, including biliary atresia and several types of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis Provides new and updated algorithms, tables and images highlighting key features of each diagnostic entity – ideal as a concise review during sign out or for studying and board preparation.

This excellent reference contains sections on the histological features associated with the various hepatitus viruses, librolamellar carcinoma, epitheloid hemangioendothelioma, the liver in AIDS, the liver in sepsis, liver transplantation, and more. Also includes superb color plates.

Here is the new edition of the definitive reference work on liver pathology. Comprehensive, authoritative and superbly illustrated, this book leads the field, with editors and contributors who represent a "who's who" of hepatopathology. The fourth edition is an invaluable bench-side reference and research tool for the day-to-day diagnosis of the wide range of appearances of the liver resulting from infection, tumours and tumour-like lesions or damage caused by drugs or toxins

A consistent format in each chapter in this book quickly delivers the essential information on basic science, clinical presentation, non-invasive and invasive testing, medical management, surgical management, complications, outcome, and follow up. It includes over 1,000 full-color photographs, line drawings, charts, and tables convey important concepts at a glance; evidence-based treatment and intervention recommendations are featured wherever possible; and short vignettes which explore real-life clinical scenarios, using the same style as those found on oral exams.

The third edition of Systemic Pathology maintains the traditions of this series by providing a definitive account of the pathology of disease in man, system by system, in an up-to-date and comprehensive way. Although with this edition the book becomes a series of independent monographs, each dealing with one body system, and edited by experts in that field, each volume remains part of a balanced presentation of the whole content of systemic pathology. In each volume the pathological basis of disease is dealt with in the light of contemporary advances in understanding, which frequently help to explain the significance of familiar observations. Emphasis is also placed on the attainment of accuracy in histopathological diagnosis in biopsy and in the post-mortem room.

Introducing a highly illustrated microscope-side liver pathology reference. The text lists the presenting symptom and then follows through the process to arrive at a diagnosis. Divided into three sections, this reference provides an introduction to liver biopsy evaluation that includes basic morphologic information. This is a step-by-step guide to evaluation. The second section covers histological features seen under a microscope and lists potential diagnoses. The third section lists all liver diseases and includes the pathologic characteristics and clinical/laboratory features of each. Offers an introductory chapter that guides readers step-by-step in the histologic assessment of liver biopsies, and provides examples of different histologic parameters for diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Features tables of morphology that present 35 specific histologic parameters seen in liver biopsies, and uses over 275 micrographsin black and white and colourto illustrate morphology. Lists 230 liver diseases alphabetically, with pathology and pertinent clinical parameters in a tabular formathistopathology in the left column, and clinical and laboratory data in the right column. Details all drugs and toxins known to produce liver cell injury and cause histologic changes, with cross references to diseases that have similar effects. Contains 1020 classic and up-to-date references that direct readers to further discussions. Includes over 330 illustrations279 in full colourfor powerful, extensive visual guidance.