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

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:

Introduction

Pages 1-3

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Normal or Nearly Normal Liver

Pages 5-12

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Portal Inflammation

Pages 13-25

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Lobular Changes

Pages 27-36

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Biliary and Vascular Changes

Pages 37-69

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Cholestasis

Pages 71-83

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Pages 85-114

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Fibrosis and Cirrhosis

Pages 115-122

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Granulomas

Pages 123-145

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Sinusoidal Changes

Pages 147-167

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Necrosis

Pages 169-180

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Pigments and Inclusions

Pages 181-201

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Funny-Looking Cells

Pages 203-210

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Liver Transplantation

Pages 211-231

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Pediatric Liver Disease

Pages 233-272

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Special and Immunohistochemical Stains

Pages 273-280

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